Kiev Borispol CIV GOV and MIL

[FredL]

A short stop and go at Kiev Borispol this weekend.
A great airport as the Gov and military side is just in front of the airlines parking.
So I tried to make a few pictures during the short taxi time.

Present were :

GOV :
2 Il-62 : UR-86527 and UR-86528,
3 Tu-134 : UR-65718, UR-65556 and UR-68392 (not 100 % sure regarding this two last ones),

MILITARY (in flyable conditions) :
2 AN-30 (one in grey and the 2nd one in white paintings), nrs. not visible,
7 An-26 : yellow 02, 04 and 05 (04 left while I was there) and 4 unidentified ones. Two were in grey color, one especially nice looking in light blue (05, maybe Ukrainian navy ?) and four in white color (including 02 and 04).
1 grey painted Tu-134.
4 Mil MI-8s (at least one equiped with rocket launchers).

On the ramp but looking grounded : 3 Il-76 (two in UN colors including one, UR-UCE, with two engines missing and the other one being UR-UCS), at least two AN-24 or 26 (one of them with one engine missing), one AN-12 (maybe UR-UCA, with civil colors and looking quite well, with propellers on), a few Il-134s, two Tu-154, 2 Mil Mi-8, a few Yak-40s. Ah yes, also a lonely Falcon-20, devoid of any markings.

There also looks to be a dump at the other end of the runway, visible when we took off, with 2 An-24 or 26s, 2 An-30 and one Tu-134 present inside.

From an airliners point on view, nothing worth noting (except maybe a bielarussian Embraer and an all-white Boeing 737 OM-GTC : it is/was registered under Capo Verde but is no more colorfull) : very sad, but the times of Tu-134s, Tu-154s, Il-62s, Antonovs airliners, looks now to be far...

Here are a few of the pictures (because of the window or speed, most of them were worse).

[frank kramer]

Although quite a while ago, in october 2013 (a few happy weeks before the sh*t really hit the fan in Kiev) my son and me logged the following stored airliners over there:

EW-246TG An26 stored
UR-85445 Tu154 stored
UR-CLE Da20 stored
UR-UCA Il.76 stored
UR-UCE Il.76MD stored
UR-UCK An12 stored
UR-UCS Il.76 stored
UR-UCZ Tu154B2 stored
UR-63957 should be the grey Tu134; indeed an Air Force bird.

hope this helps out with some.

BTW: the blue An26 "05", isn't that the one that used to be a static display aircraft somewhere that was overhauled and returned to the Air Force by a wealthy private individual? I remember seeing a news item on this board somewhere during 2014.

[FredL]

Thanks for those data.

I don't know about thie blue An-26 "Yellow 05", but it looks indeed in pretty goog conditions.

You are probably right about this (lonely) An-12 : it should be UR-UCK (not UCA).

The grey Tu-134 also looks quite in very good condition when compared with the other stored planes. It was parked behind trees among planes looking to be flyable, next to old radar stuffs. I put one picture of this one hereunder.

And a picture of one of the two Il-62s, a little bit far, but as it is unusual...

[frank kramer]

Tu134: that's the one. In 2013 at least, it was still operational. Don't know about the current status though...

[AndyMarden]

The grey Tu-134 (63957) is actually parked in the maintenance area, which explains it good condition. It was still operational in May15.
The third government Tu-134 you listed is actually Air Force, it is 63982. It's the one in your photo (the second one from the top)
The white An-30 is 81 yellow
The grey An-30 could be either 86 blue or 87 blue. 86 blue was still on rework at Zhuliany as late as 30 June 2015, but may have been delivered to KBP by the time of your visit.

[FredL]

Last tuesday at Kiev.
A visiting Romanian air force An-30 (nr 1105) was parked next to an Ukrainian same type of aircraft. Unfortinattely a bit to far to allow good pictures from the airport terminal.
A few months ago, I was able to make a shot of the two Il-62, which don't look to be used anymore (the Tu-134 which I saw previously next to the Il-62s were not there anymore).

[patrick dirksen]

Indeed the Il-62s are stored.
Also seen a few times the last two weeks were three Mi-8s in the new digital c/s. Andy gave the id of the only one they had by last April (don't have it at hand at the moment), the other two are probably recent additions. Unfortunately all three have no external markings. They might be on loan from another base, anybody who knows more about them?

[AndyMarden]

Patrick,
I would need to see photos to have a go at identifying them.
Andy

[patrick dirksen]

Hopefully this works:



A bad quality pic, I know, but it was still not fully light and very very foggy....
There are small differences in setup (numbers 2 and 3 have a radar nose while number 1 doesn't, and only the first one has armoured plates on the nose) and colours/markings (see for example the shape of the lighter dots on the nose, numbers 2 and 3 are similar while number 1 is different).

Any help with their ID would be very welcome!
@Andy: I can send you the original picture if that would help.

EDIT: it doesn't seem to work....

Here's a link to Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30165261@ ... ed-public/

[AndyMarden]

Patrick,
I'm pretty sure the one on the right is bort 70 (c/n 95237). Here's a photo for comparison of the scheme:
http://spotters.net.ua/file/?id=113538
Note that it has indeed been fitted with armoured plates since that photo was taken.
The other two are "new" Mi-8MSB-V upgrades - no info on them as yet.
Interesting that although the colour schemes appear identical on these two at first glance, there are some very minor differences if you look closely, which should help to identify them in due course.

[patrick dirksen]

Hi Andy,

THanks for this. Bort 70 was seen here also last April, the others are new indeed by the looks of them. I keep an eye out on the internet, if you do find out more please let me know!