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Day 1

East Midlands 11-09-09

G-DHLE B-767

G-FDZB B-737

G-TOYG B-737

G-TOYI B-737

G-VZON ATR-72

D-CBIN SA-227

EI-DHF B-737 (Our ride to Budapest)

EI-DHI B-737

EI-DWB B-737

EI-DYF B-737

EI-JIY L-100

G-FRYI Be-200

N709EL Be-400

Budapest 11-09-09

After an uneventful flight a few bits went into the book on arrival

HA-JET Ce-500

HA-LPK A-320

HA-LQB DASH-8

HA-SIT Pa-31T

C-GWWW CL-850

M-AKAK EMB-135

N313UP B-767

N447FE A-310

OO-TNE B-737

Req's

??-??? An-26

??-??? Ce-525

??-??? Do-328j

??-??? EMB-120

??-??? Yak-40

After the "Bag Grab" and getting the car we were off into the night for Croatia, And after the border crossing and a few hours sleep in a hotel in Zagreb it was up and at it around the local airfields. Velika-Gorica was first, This is a re-work facility with quite a lot of aircraft parked outside waiting for re-work or the scrap man, noted here were the following.

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Day 2

Velika-Gorica 12-09-09

Active aircraft

202 Mi8 (test flight)

H-251 Mi-8 (maintenance hanger)

H-276 Mi-8 (flew over the top)

9A-DIZ An-2 (flew over the top)

165 Mig-21 (red / white colours, in maintenance hanger)

126 Mig-21 (in maintenance hanger)

Withdrawn aircraft

002 UTVA-75

003 UTVA-75

004 UTVA-75

010 UTVA-75

011 UTVA-75

H-101 Mi-8

H-103 Mi-8 (also carried OK-DXN on nose)

9A-BKA An-2

9A-BOF An-2

9A-BOG An-2

013 An-2

(01)4 An-2

DDR-SKA An-2

30150 / 150 J-20

(24)205 J-21 with tail of 24275 (205 confirmed from nose, not 24146)

24407 / 407 J-21

(51131) / 131 UTVA-66

51139 / 139 UTVA-66

(59+03) / 9A-ISC Do-28

43285 ?? F-86 SABRE

H-451 H-369

?-??? Mi-24 c/n read off the side of the aircraft as 3532424913763

DDR-SKA An-2

Req's

????? AN2 (white with red stripes, possibly ends RM)

??? Mi8 (no boom)

??? UTVA 75 (serial painted out)

All the MiG-21 that can be seen on GE have all now gone

Zagreb-Pleso 12-9-09

An airport and an air base, At the airport noted over two or three visits were these

Airliners

9A-BTB Let-410

9A-CQA Dash-8

9A-CQB Dash-8

9A-CQC Dash-8

9A-CQD Dash-8

9A-CTL A-320

Biz and Biz-Props

9A-CHC Ce-500

9A-DOF Ce-551

9A-BZG Pa-42

9A-CZG Pa-42

Others

HA-FAL EMB-120

LZ-WZB A-320

OK-NHR Be-90

At a technical school

(52105) UTVA 66 (on floats)

??-??? L-200 (Dumped)

Just for the log along with 10 or so other GA bits

9A-DEE Ce-172

Odds and ends

9A-BDQ ??

9A-IRE ??

9A-ZIM ??

Req

??-??? Rc-690 (Dumped)

On the military side the following went in the book, Again over the two or three visits we made here

161 Mig 21UM Gate Guard

Active

120 Mig21

12(7?) Mig 21

220 Mi8

H-276 Mi8

c/n 2810 AN32 (hangered)

Visiting

92 1109 C17 USAF

Zagreb-Lucko 12-9-09

A small GA field South West of the town with a military area police hangar and an aeroclub, It was the aeroclub that were holding a fly-in air day not as we thought the military

Based aircraft noted in the military area

222 Mi-171

224 Mi-171

254 Mi-8

At the far side of the nil ramp a dumped Mi-6

RA-21132 Mi-6 WFU

Police Hanger contained

9A-HAG Ro-22

9A-HBC AB-206

9A-HBM AB-212
9A-HBZ AB-206

And at the small airshow these bits on the civil side

D-EFSC Do-27 Ex MAAW-16, D-12/OT-AMK/OL-D12/D-12

9A-DIZ An-2

GA notes

9A-CBC ??

9A-DBE ??

9A-DBS Pa-18 Cub

9A-GBA Blanik Glider

9A-GBB Blanik Glider

9A-GBD Blanik Glider

9A-DBU Pa-18 Cub

9A-DLJ ??

9A-DOG Interavia I-3

9A-GPA Pilatus B-4 Glider

9A-GRA SZD-30

D-ICEC Ce-337

E7-MIA Da-20

Plus appx 20 to 30 other 9A- light aircraft i did not log

After this it was of doing two W & R's starting with a beautifully MiG-21 pole mounted in a village

Only the back end and tail remains of this one having been shot down its preserved with a lot of tanks and guns

On the road and off into Serbia now following a very big thunder storm, The lightning lit everything up when it went off and we could hear the thunder in the car as we drove along. At the side of the motorway was a house the lightning had struck it was well on fire with the local people trying to douse the flames with buckets of warter. The border crossing was interesting in the fact at the serbian side guard looked at our passports and just waved us through, After all what we had at RAF Fairford some years ago going backwards and forwards to this land dropping bombs everywhere i thought we may be in for a grilling but no, So on we went to our hotel and yet again just a few hours kip before we were up and at it again

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A few miles to the North West of Belgrade is Batajnica a big military airfield with lots of very interesting aircraft on the base and at the re-work centre.

With the crazed Serb guard on hanger door duty, all we read off through the gaps were :

also present and not logged or seen (well not seen enough to be sure we saw it all) by us :

23601 G4 (Sp. Mks, flew in the morning and spent most of the rest of the day bagged)

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A museum we had all wanted to get to for a long time, The museum building is like a giant Silver flying saucer, To give you an idea here are some links to look at

the damaged tail section of 23733 Super Galeb was also present, along with small parts from the shot down F117 and USAF F16.

How do you top that ??, Fantastic that is all we had to say, Up the road back into Hungary for the flight home again crossing the border with no problems. We had a little time to kill so as we were passing Kecskemet we decided to have a look and see what was around

Well that was it yet another trip over, A first time in Serbia and Croatia for me but not to Yugoslavia as it was if you follow my drift, 1977 my last visit out there and yes i was spotting and did get a few good bits back then as well.