Can anyone come up with suggestions for a good home for a rare Yak-28 ‘Brewer’? (A Soviet 1960’s era light attack bomber). It’s in a private collection near Budapest , Hungary, where the owner had intended to set up a museum. His plans were not liked by the local authorities, unfortunately, and he’s had to scrap most of his large collection of aircraft, mostly MiGs of various kinds,until only a handful are left.
Now he has decided to move away altogether, and unless he can find a home very soon for his few remaining airframes, they’ll all be scrapped.
This is one of only three Yak28’s in Europe outside of Russia & the Ukraine , and needless to say it would be a great shame if it were destroyed. It’s in need of some work to bring up to display standard, but is nearly all there.
Any ideas, please?
By: Vulcan903 - 1st November 2006 at 20:31
How do you solve a problem like Brewer…
Get a group of like minded people a 7.5 ton Hi Ab and go and get it!
I have a museum in the UK who might take it on as a restoration project!
By: Discendo Duces - 1st November 2006 at 09:08
Thanks for posting the pictures.
The Aerosan was still there in September ( I wondered what it was called!), and the Aeropark venture is most definitely dead, I’m afraid.
DD
By: Flanker_man - 1st November 2006 at 07:37
Yes, that’s the one. It actually looked better when I saw it last month, probably because the grass wasn’t so long!
So – the whole Aeropark venture is in decline ??
That is very sad.
I remember going to the ‘boneyard’ when it was near Ferihegy airport in Budapest.
Then a couple of years later, it had moved to its new location a bit further away.
We were told that the owner had plans to create an ‘Aeropark’/adventure playground – what I photographed were just the airframes in the same state after their move from Ferihegy.
Last year (IIRC) there was a post asking about the Tupolev Aerosan that was being restored- (5th & 6th photos :- http://www.makettinfo.hu/fotok/roncsrancs_takacs/index.htm)
I had photographed the same two machines a few years earlier (on the first visit to Hungary) at Budaors.
Do you know what has happened to the Aerosans??
…..and is the Aeropark now ‘dead’ ??
Cheers
Ken
By: Discendo Duces - 31st October 2006 at 22:38
Save a Brewer
Yes, that’s the one. It actually looked better when I saw it last month, probably because the grass wasn’t so long!
By: Flanker_man - 31st October 2006 at 22:24
There are also some photos of the ‘Aeropark’ here….. http://www.makettinfo.hu/fotok/roncsrancs_takacs/index.htm
I’m not sure about its current status – not good by the sound of it!
Ken
By: Flanker_man - 31st October 2006 at 22:20
This is what it was like when I photographed it a few years ago…..
(I assume that it is the same one ?)
Ken
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