Cuban aviation

There’s also some quite big bits of a U2 in a non-aviation museum in Trinidad, a seaside town a couple of hundred km from Havana. When I went to Havana they didn’t seem to care what photos I took of the Sea Fury as long as I kept off the grass. Having little ability to plan I wandered along in Havana, looked down a side street and saw a Sea Fury. Reminded me of when I saw a Mig 21 in the middle of the road in the Czek Republic, 1993.

The airport at Havana has a lovely old IL62 converted to a cafe/bar. The beer’s quite cheap and it’s much more civilised than the airport itself. Horrible paint job on it, but if you ask really nicely they’ll let you sit in the cockpit. Cheap beer, sitting in a jet cockpit, making jet noises, watching 1950’s Chevies and Buicks going past out of the cockpit window…….aaahh.

Nice set of pics. No problems taking photos? need any special passes or permits?

Thinks: don’t know why I’m asking I’m not likely to get to Cuba, just curious I guess 😎

Roger Smith.

Corrrr I love that camo…

And the last few

And then after a 40 minute taxi ride I also ‘accidentally stumbled’ over the Museo del Aire 😀

Kabir, according to a friend of mine who visited Havana just before Xmas he saw most An2s in the colours of Aerotaxi but also a few in Cubana colours. Wether the Cubana An2s are still in scheduled service or not I’m not sure. But as with Aerocarribean and Aerogaviota, Aerotaxi is affiliated with Cubana.

Originally posted by Interflug62M
Cubana update……The Cuban flag carrier is understood to be studying the IL96-300 as a replacement for the IL62M. T5, the A330 concerned is a Swedish machine belonging to Novair. Further details in Febs mag. Steve, Cubana still flies a mainly Soviet fleet: IL62M, IL76, IL18, TU154M, Yak42, Yak40, AN24, AN26 and the AN2 as well as a fleet of Mil8 helicopters. They also operated a small fleet of ex Aviaco F27s but these have since been sold on and are expected to be replaced with ATR42s. Aerogaviota, a Cubana subsidiary has flown the ATR within Cuba for some time now.

Does Cubana still operate the An2 on scheduled service?

Originally posted by Portugal
There you have a Cubana DC10 in Guatemala City Airport

What was that, an overshoot on landing or an aborted takeoff

Cubana update……The Cuban flag carrier is understood to be studying the IL96-300 as a replacement for the IL62M. T5, the A330 concerned is a Swedish machine belonging to Novair. Further details in Febs mag. Steve, Cubana still flies a mainly Soviet fleet: IL62M, IL76, IL18, TU154M, Yak42, Yak40, AN24, AN26 and the AN2 as well as a fleet of Mil8 helicopters. They also operated a small fleet of ex Aviaco F27s but these have since been sold on and are expected to be replaced with ATR42s. Aerogaviota, a Cubana subsidiary has flown the ATR within Cuba for some time now.

Originally posted by steve rowell
Cubana use a lot of Soviet equipment don’t they??????

It seems the Soviet equipment is very useful for communism :D. I don’t understand how people travel in and out of cuba. Does the communism allow this?

Originally posted by Interflug62M
Kabir..The DC10s were leased from French outfit AOM to operate flights to and from Europe. Rumour has it that we could soon see up to 4 A340s in Cubana colours. Very nice. Just think, if the insane US trade blockade against Cuba was lifted Boeing could have tendered! Ah well, Governments know best!

cheers for the info.:)

Cubana use a lot of Soviet equipment don’t they??????

www.sukhoi.fsnet.co.uk/cubana.htm

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. AOM is a French airline, now part of AirLib. It flies several DC-10 aircraft, including this one which is also operated on behalf of Cubana.

There you have a Cubana DC10 in Guatemala City Airport

According to the Kuoni “Tropical Sun” 2004 brochure, flights from Gatwick to Holguin, Cuba, are operated by a Cubana A330! I think this may be a terrible typing error because they mean Monarch Airlines! :confused:

Kabir..The DC10s were leased from French outfit AOM to operate flights to and from Europe. Rumour has it that we could soon see up to 4 A340s in Cubana colours. Very nice. Just think, if the insane US trade blockade against Cuba was lifted Boeing could have tendered! Ah well, Governments know best!

Well i didnt know Cubana operated DC 10s……. oh well you learn something everyday.