Russian helicopter in Liverpool

Would have thought a Mi-8 more appropriate for a Hippy festival 🙂

As Admin of a Merseyside based aviation forum, nwan forum, picked up on this thread within a an hour of being posted. I provided the information and a link to our members, one of whom has been down to the Liverpool Pier Head today and posted a number of photos on:

http://derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/29247/helicopter-pier-head-july-2018

Included is a photo of a plate on the helicopter clearly identifying it as SP-TVA.

In my 2006 Bob Ogden’s Air Britain ‘Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe’, I find Mil Mi-2 SP-TVA 533443044 listed as being in a large private collection the ‘Wystawa Sprzetu Lotniczego I Wojskowego Muzeum’ near the city of Lodz. It is noted (2006) that the museum had closed and one of owners had recently died. There may be more on this helicopter out there on the internet now that there is an identity to use for a ‘Google’.

So some answers for ‘Scouse’ who I suspect knows both Brian Jones ‘Viscount’ and Ken Ledward ‘Airbus’.

There is another short thread on nwan taken on the same trip as looking for the helicopter, of non-aviation photos at Liverpool’s Pier Head that might interest those who know Liverpool’s maritime connections. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/29261/celebrity-eclipse

Its part of a festival due to run into early September so number crunchers had better hurry ! https://rmstitanichotel.co.uk/liverpools-pier-head-village-festival-returns-for-a-fun-filled-summer/