A sad sight – or should that be site?

Before I went the tour organisers were not sure if anything would be there for us to see as there was development all around.
Just before my visit vandals set fire to the IL14.
As for the canopies they have just been left open
John

I was offered the Il-14 as part of the deal and was told they would make it airworthy (for an unreasonable amount of dollars). They just kept jacking the price up and up.

After it all collapsed I discovered they had previously tried to sell the aircraft in China but interest there had disappeared after similar increasing demands.

I also recall multiple “interests” behind the aircraft which was a problem even for the principals on the museum side.

Sad sad sad

Before I went the tour organisers were not sure if anything would be there for us to see as there was development all around.
Just before my visit vandals set fire to the IL14.
As for the canopies they have just been left open
John

In fairness hopefully none of them are in imminent risk of being scrapped and essentially I guess if these hadn’t gone into the musuem in the first place they would have been scrapped years ago!

Russian airfields tend to be littered with time expired airframes. OK, perhaps not Zhukovsky any more 🙁

Can you please say what is there in the way of Second World War and earlier types – if any, and if there are, are they kept under cover and maintained?

Soggy.

None. It is all modern stuff with the earliest being a Mig-15 and a Mil-1 helicopter. A lot of the airframes are actually developmental machines pushed out of the doors of the various OKBs with offices around the edge of the former airfield.

None of the airframes are under cover.

As bad as things are for the museum, it was a much worse scenario for the airfield as the former Moscow Central Aerodrome was closed down and taken over by Mayor Turi Luzhkov to have flats and shops and restaurants built on it.Very sad.

In fairness hopefully none of them are in imminent risk of being scrapped and essentially I guess if these hadn’t gone into the musuem in the first place they would have been scrapped years ago!

Reminds me of the old Wales Aircraft Museum.

Can you please say what is there in the way of Second World War and earlier types – if any, and if there are, are they kept under cover and maintained?

Soggy.

Lots of images on the following

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Moscow+-+Khodynskoe+Pole+(Frunze+/+Central)&distinct_entry=true&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page=1&page_limit=15&sid=efea381c3acbcb2f716d32251d0546b3

http://www.paulnann.com/Location.asp?Location=Khodynka

TJ

As I have mentioned previously there was a plan to bring a number of them including the MiG-25 to the UK but this fell down due to the monetary demands on the Russian side.

Thank you for sharing them with us – but oh what a sad, sad sight they are….

Canopy left open to the elements or was that opened during the visit?

What a shame that no money could pay for their survival in another collection elsewhere…… 🙁

More Khodynka pix

A few more from Khodynka. I have many pictures but they mostly of details of the a/c taken to help with my modelling so there are few ‘whole a/c’ shots.
Sorry.

More pics please.
It would be nice to have that MIG 25 over here.

Ben

NAM can do the ones either side 23 & 27! 😀

Yes, more pics please!

Blimey.

I thought for a minute they’d re-located the Lasham Museum.

More pics please.
It would be nice to have that MIG 25 over here.

Ben