aircraft graveyard in Dubai?

I will have a search.. I know I saw some pics of old F86F’s on a dump, in the middle east a while ago, Saudi ??,or simaller, :confused:

Merkle,GE for Riyadh SA,and look at the East side ,Al Amir towards the top of the mil.ramp,and on the west side of the parade square…

Merkle: I don’t think it is Dubai. There is no military side, nor even a dump. I am out in the UAE at the moment and although I have visited a number of remote desert strips here and in Oman, there is a dearth of wrecks and relics.

Laurence

F86 Dubai yard

I am Sure Ive seen photos, on the military side of the Dubai airfield Dump,
where there was a few old military types ,left abandoned, namely F86 F Fighters.

Anyone have any more photos of these derelict military aircraft at Dubai ??

I could be wrong ??,. it May have been Dharaan, Any one have any Ideas ?:D

Just to be accurate, Sharjah is not in Dubai. They are two emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Another Russian relic nearby is the IL76 TL-ACH parked outside the Umm Al Qwain airfield at 25 34 49N, 55 39 10E.

Laurence

I was at Sharjah a little over a week ago. All the old stuff has now been cleared out and the airport looks empty. The operations that used to be at Sharjah have now been moved to Fujairah on the east coast of the Emerates and to sem extend to Ras el Khamah further north.

To give you an idea, here is a taster of what Fujairah looks like. This Il-18 is registered as EX-75466 and has National Paint titles on the lower left fuselage. National Paint is an airline that is suspected to be/have been associated with Victor Bout, the famous arms smuggler/blockade runner. Behind it you can see rows upon rows of AN-12´s and AN-24´s. This Il-18 is still flying.

Here is a photo of another Il-18 with suspected Victor Bout connections. It is EX-505 formerly (presently??) of Anikay Airlines. It is still a flyer.

Yet another Il-18 with dodgy past (and probably present). UP-I1801 of Mega Airlines yet another airline with suspected connections to Victor Bout! In the background Il-76´s are visible.

A general picture of the west side of the ramp.

This is ony a very small portion of the aircraft that are sitting around this airport. I would not be surprised if there were close to 100 aircraft sitting around there!

It’s where the old Russian types go to die. A lot of AN-12’s, IL-18’s and IL-76’s have been seeing out their last days plying their trade around the Arabian Gulf. There were even some AN-8s stored a while back, after their Airworthiness Certificates got withdrawn.