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Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Romania 21- 23 January
2011 - Ade Hairsine
Back from my latest wanderings (Sorry it's late) and again
it was back to Hungary at the start the year, On the way back from the Szolnok
base tour last January we both felt we would not have to go back
for quite a while as we have seen 99.9% of the aircraft in the country but it
seems to get aircraft discovered in it nearly every day. Doing a bit of research
on the net which lead to finding two new locations and one lost aircraft, one a
new find and guy we know who was working on a base in Romania we thought we
would have a trip out for 3 days and here is the result, So starting at Luton
for our Wizzair flight to Budapest
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Mi-8's on the range at Hajduhadhaz
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MiG-15 at Jamajor
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Mi-8 in Probstdorf Austria
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Our ride to timisoara
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MiG-23's from the air at Timisoara
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And again from the air
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MiG-23's at Timisoara
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Mi-2 at Tokol Yard
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MiG-21's at tokol Yard
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Click on an image for a full size version
Day 1
East Midlands 21-01-2011
A quick look as we passed on the M1
Cargo east
OY-??? B-767 Starair
Luton 21-01-2011
A few nice looking frames in this morning
G-CJCC Ce-680
G-HCSA Ce-525
G-LEAX Ce-560
G-OMEA Ce-560
G-RUBE EMB-135
CS-DKK Gulf-5
CS-DRS BAe-125
CS-DTF Da-2000
CS-DXD Ce-560
D-AKBH CL-604
D-IVVB Ce-525
EC-KHT EMB-135
HB-JFD Ce-750
LZ-YUR CL-600
M-APWC Learjet-60
M-MDDE CL-604
M-SAIR Da-900
M-YJET Da-2000
M-YNNS Da-900
N82RP Da-900
N162DJ Eclipse
N335LL Gulf-5
N452NS Gulf-4
N995GG Gulf-4
OE-ILY CRJ-200
OO-FLN Ce-525
P4-GJL CRL-200
SX-IRP Galaxy
S5-ADE BD-100
VP-BOW BD-700
VT-TMS Gulf-5
XA-RBS Gulf-4
5H-ONE Gulf-5
9K-ALD A-310
9K-GFA Gulf-5
Airliners
G-BYAI B-757
G-EZAJ A-319
G-EZAO A-319
G-EZBY A-319
G-EZDC A-319
G-EZDF A-319
G-EZGD A-319
G-EZTF A-319
G-EZTJ A-319
EC-KVD B-737
EI-EAC A-300
EI-SLL ATR-72
HA-LPA A-320 (Our outbound machine)
HA-LPD A-320
HA-LPE A-320
HA-LPI A-320
HA-LPM A-320
HA-LPO A-320
HA-LPV A-320
LZ-WZA A-320
N960FD B-757
PH-OYI B-767
4K-EKJ B-737
After an uneventful but very nice flight we arrived in Budapest, Not a lot was
logged and I have a req or three
Budapest 21-01-2011
D-IEFA Ce-525
D-IEVB Ce-525
D-ISCO Ce-525
OO-SDU Be-200
Req's
B-???? A-330 Hainan Airlines (CHH-481/2)
N???FD A-300 FedEx (FDX-5212/1)
N3??UP B-767 UPS (UPS-274/5)
We picked the car up and headed off towards the first call of the day in
Hungary, Doing some research on the net before we set off I have found a few
unknown items we wanted the look at in Hungary Hajduhadhaz was one of them and
did not disappoint
Hajduhadhaz 21-01-2011
What i found on the net was a Mi-8 helicopter on a training range that has now
been joined by another one from the store at Szolnok. If you look at this place
on Google earth the road which runs East West near the helicopters is a public
road and you are only approx 200 meters away from the aircraft
10425 Mi-8 (Ex Szolnok store)
????? Mi-8 (Old camo colours so it could have been here for quite a few years)
The next item on the list was a MiG-21 in a small town where the first Hungarian
astronaut come from, Again research on the net for the true ID for this aircraft
which has been confirmed by a "Guy in the know". 1980 is the year the guy went
into space
Gyulahaza 21-01-2011
"1980" MiG-21 (Real id 817)
A quick nip over into Slovakia for a MiG-15 as we were in that part of the world
Kralovsky Chlmec Slovakia 21-01-2011
3010 MiG-15 (ex Czech AF)
We started back towards Budapest and the hotel we were booked in and called at
two places en-route, Miskolc had two points of interest for us the airfield and
an airframe in the town
Miskolc Airfield 21-01-2011
(8918) Mi-2 (c/n read 518918104 ex Hungarian AF)
This nicely confirms it's id
And off into the town for another Mi-2
Miskolc Town 21-01-2011
7834 Mi-2 ex Hungarian AF
Making good time on the road we decided to check another Mi-2 near Budapest for
an id we did not check last year
Dunakeszi 21-01-2011
All we could see on our last visit here was 8924 painted near fuel filler cap so
a look at the c/n plate was needed
(8942) Mi-2 (ex Slovak AF c/n 568942124 as we thought)
Again this nicely confirms another id
the hotel was reached and we settled down for the night
Day 2
An early start as per usual but not far to travel to the first target
Tokol Town 22-01-2011
The "Tokol Yard" as we call it contains a good selection of aircraft but the
Mi-2 and the MiG-15 were not confirmed serials so a look in the yard was first
on the list
17 MiG-21
(046) MiG-15
313 MiG-21
838 MiG-17
6115 MiG-21
94+64 Mi-2 (c/n read as 562818043 and this turns out to be an ex NVA machine
nice)
And the civil bits here
HA-MCM Ka-26
HA-MPN Ka-26
HA-??? PZL-101
Very happy with our findings we set off for another of my internet researched
aircraft finds
Jajmajor 22-01-2011
Sure enough on the gate at this military camp was the MiG (I am getting quite
good at finding things)
711 MiG-15 (It looks like it's had a new coat of paint recently)
As we were near Kecskemet a look over the fence was next
Kecskemet 22-01-2011
Nothing new was noted just the usual MiG-29's stored in the revetments
Back on the road again for another MiG-15 but this time it was Tim who had
missed out on this one 3 times before was it 4th time lucky ?
Borgond 22-01-2011
When We and my self saw this it was out on the airfield but now it's been
taken in a hangar here that's how Tim has missed it
071 MiG-15
The only other aircraft of note was
HA-MDR An-2
Working our way towards Papa for a look at the C-17's here we called at a museum
we looked at last year to see if anything had changed
Szantod 22-01-2011
01 MiG-23
51 MiG-21
108 Mi-24
715 Mi-24
(814) MiG-15
8913 Mi-2
9411 Mi-2
No changes , So a quick ferry ride across Lake Balaton and we were on our way to
Papa. Approx 5km from Papa I saw two Ka-26's in a yard in a village, We turned
round to have a look but when we got to the yard two large dogs stopped us
getting out of the car to have a closer look, The ID's were taken off the net
Tapolcafo 22-01-2011
(HA-MMQ) Ka-26 Painted Yellow (c/n 7404305)
(HA-MZG / CCCP19288 Ka-26) Looked to be in Aeroflot c/s, (c/n 7101705 could be
ex HUF-705 in Soviet Transport book ?)
Back on the road and to Papa
Papa 22-01-2011
Third time lucky we were hoping for C-17 "01" to be around our last one, We were
not disappointed all three were in
01 C-17
02 C-17
03 C-17
As none of us needed any of the Fighters stored here we did not look at them
From here we could have had an early night at the hotel or go to look at another
aircraft i have found, No contest we were on the road into Austria
Probstdorf Austria 22-01-2011
Arriving well after dark so using the car headlights it's very easy to see and
we even managed a reasonable photo
(9)90 Mi-8 (ex 93+44 NVA)
Now it was time to head back to the hotel and some kip
Day 3
It was now Timisoara time, Tim the guys with us had been working on seeing the
33 stored MiG-23's here and We had put some overtime in on this as well but
both of them had drawn a blank so a different approach was taken. The only way
we could see the MiGs at Timisoara was to fly in, this could be done in two
different way's fly in and out on a commercial flight and hope we would be sat
at the correct side of the aircraft and all the MiG's could be seen or charter
something our selves and make sure we could see what we wanted the latter won
the day.
Tokol Airfield 23-01-2011
The arrangements had been made to charter and aircraft to fly us to Timisoara
and we all met our crew and aircraft at Tokol airfield for the flight, The
aircraft we used was a Piper Seneca. After the briefing and customs clearance we
climbed aboard "H-CI" for the aerial assault on Timisoara, One strange thing was
we sat looking backwards in the centre seats but this worked out
quite good in the end for the photos we took at Timisoara not looking forward at
the wing of the aircraft but looking backwards. A slight down side was when we
arrived in the Timisoara area there was Snow falling and we had to use an ILS
approach this also and this cut down visibility somewhat. The flight took around
1-1/4 hours each way and we ended up with good ish view of the MiG's through the
snow and we got ATC clearance for 4 orbits at appx 500ft above the MiG's we then
landed and stayed on the ground airside for 30 min's and took off again and got
4 more orbits. During the second set of orbits the snow had stopped and
visibility was 100% better so the photo's were a lot better
HA-DAQ Da-20
HA-SIP Sa-26 Merlin
HA-YCI Pa-34 Seneca (Our machine)
Timisoara Airport 23-01-2011
Terminal Area
YR-DAA Sf-340 Direct Air Services
HA-YCI Pa-34 Seneca
Maintenance Area
YR-FKB Fk-100 Carpetair
YR-FZA Fk-100 Carpetair (Hangared)
YR-SBK Sf-2000 Carpetair
YR-SBN Sf-2000 Carpetair
Military Area
(191) MiG-23 Gate Guard
(6040) MiG-21 Gate Guard
Revetments, HAS's, Ramps Etc
214 IAR-93 (The only IAR-93 here)
(???) IAR-330 in a HAS
If you look on Google Earth at this area i will call "Area 1" the first area on
the Left of the taxi way as you would come from the terminal to the Left of the
GE view "Area 2" will be the four aircraft on your Left again, Then "Area 3"
first on the Right as you again come from the terminal "Area 4" again on the
Right "Area 5" on the Right, "Area 6" the next on the Right and "Area 7" the Six
aircraft in a row behind some HAS's and "Area 7" the IAR-93. All aircraft listed
as if you were looking into the area's from the taxiway
Area 1
Left row
MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s) 174 or 175
2(4)3 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
222 MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
Right row
194 MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
197 MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
190 MiG-23 (Grey c/s)
Area 2
Left Row
MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s) 174 or 175
111 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
Right row
19- MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s) 196 or 199
(240) MiG-23 (Tiger c/s) id from colours on photo
Area 3
Left row
205 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
260 MiG-23 (Grey c/s)
Right row
203 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
246 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
MiG-23 (Grey c/s) 258,261 or 410
Area 4
Front Aircraft
512 MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
Left row
225 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
198 MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
259 MiG-23 (Grey c/s)
MiG-23 (Grey c/s) 258,261 or 410
Right row
247 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
195 MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
MiG-23 (Grey c/s) 258,261 or 410
(4)09 MiG-23 (Grey c/s)
Area 5
137 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
136 MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
Area 6
192 MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
193 MiG-23 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s) 196 or 199
242 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
241 MiG-23 (Tiger c/s)
311 MiG-23 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
Area 7
214 IAR-93
The adding up bit, not read from my photo's are the following but using the
colours of the aircraft we can deduce this
135 (Tiger c/s)
174 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
175 (Light Green and Brown c/s)
196 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
199 (Dark Green Brown c/s)
258 (Grey c/s)
261 (Grey c/s)
410 (Grey c/s)
I have photo's of all Grey, Dark Green Brown, Light Green and Brown so this must
mean the missing aircraft is
135 Tiger c/s missing ?
Not too bad considering the conditions we were shooting in
During the back to Tokol we over flew Kecskemet airbase so I got a few ott shots
of the place, and there were MiG-29's on the main ramp as well as the storage
revetments, After we had got back settled up and said many thanks for our flight
crew we had a look round Tokol airfield
Tokol 23-01-2011
The stored "Hinds" have not changed but have been joined by some MiG-21's from
Papa
005 Mi-24
006 Mi-24
007 Mi-24
008 Mi-24
105 Mi-24
106 Mi-24
107 Mi-24
110 Mi-24
111 Mi-24
112 Mi-24
116 Mi-24
575 Mi-24
583 Mi-24
091 MiG-21
096 MiG-21
5081 MiG-21
Again c/n checking on two Mi-2's
0220 MiG-21 (ex Czech AF)
(8215) Mi-2 (c/n 518215053, ex Slovak AF 8215)
(41) Mi-2 (c/n 543723084, ex Soviet AF)
HA-YAE Yak-52 (ex RA44000)
HA-YDJ SMG-92 (Painted in Camo c/s)
Noted in the main hangar with a lot of lighter stuff
HA-??? Be-400 (I thought it was HA-FUN but i cannot find any info on this)
Leaving Tokol and having an hour or two to kill before our flight home we went
to the other large GA field in Budapest for a look round
Budaors 23-01-2011
A number of ex military machines were found here today, There was no flying here
today but an ask to look round the hangar was given the ok
HA-MCB Ka-26
HA-MNM Ka-26
HA-MNV Ka-26
HA-MZP Ka-26
HA-YHB An-2
(209) Li-2 HA-LIX
305 MiG-21
(306) Li-2 (Nose only)
(501) Ka-26 HA-MRS
(61078) Bulldog ex Swedish AF
Still with time on our hands Tim needed the Mi-1 in the city we saw last
year
Budapest Town 23-01-2011
Still sitting in it's garden
(34) Mi-1
Budapest Airport 23-01-2011
Again not much logged here due to it been dark now
HA-??? A-320 (Our delayed flight to Luton)
HA-TC? An-26
UR-DNN EMB-135
Luton 23-01-2011
Back in "Blighty" a few biz went in the log
Biz-Jets
G-CDLT BAe-125
G-SABI Da-900
CS-DSA Da-7x
CS-DUF BAe-125
HB-JFD Ce-750
M-GRAN BD-700
M-RCCG EMB-135
M-UNIS BD-700
N82RP Da-900
N119AF Gulf-4
N235PZ Gulf-4
N400FJ Gulf-4
N498YY Ce-525
N701WH BD-700
N771AV Gulf-4
N876C Da-900
N886DT Gulf-5
P4-JET Da-50
P4-PET BAe-125
OE-ISA CRJ-200
OE-ISU CL-605
OY-ZWO Da-2000
TC-TAV BAe-125
TC-YAA BD-700
VP-BAE Gulf-4
VP-BJK Gulf-5
VT-SBK Da-900
VT-TMS Gulf-5
9K-GFA Gulf-5
Airliners
G-EZAB A-319
G-EZBF A-319
G-EZDC A-319
G-EZEO A-319
G-EZIO A-319
G-EJAR A-319
CS-TDI A-310
EI-DCW B-737
EI-DWM B-737
HA-LPI A-320
HA-LPQ A-320
LZ-WZA A-320
If anyone needs any Google Earth GPSA co-ords please e-mail me and I will send
them on, As always many many thanks to the guys.
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