Tu-114 Broken up in Moscow

My photoreportage…
http://www.avianews.com/photoreport/tu114crash/1.htm

Thanks for posting the link! For those with a weak stomach, you had better not look…
Such a d*mn shame…

My photoreportage…
http://www.avianews.com/photoreport/tu114crash/1.htm

It is an icon of its time. I still have my Tupole/Aeroflot publicity booklet of it squirreled from the Russian delegation supporting the exhibition in London of 1961. Soviet dreams!

What an incredible act of vandalism; guess I was lucky to catch some pictures on July 7th!

From the Russian press:

28 July was a black day for many enthusiasts of aviation. On this day
at Moscow Domodedovo Airport, dismantling of the Tu-114 aircraft
monument began. In other words, the aircraft simply was sawed into
scrap metal. The long-range airliner stood on a pedestal opposite the
passenger terminal for almost 30 years and became the residency card of
Domodedovo.
Originally it was planned that theTu-114 would be displaced into
another region, situated not far from the terminal, since the aircraft
was not entered in the plan of the development of the airport. During
May of this year the representative of East Line, the controlling
company of Domodedovo, stated that the aircraft monument would not be
dismantled.

They were to only move it into another place, where it not would
prevent the building of a new parking lot and expansion of the
passenger terminal. However, unfortunately, this proved to be not so,
and the aircraft went under the knife. It is not thus far clear,
whether the Domodedovo Airport will remain without an aviation monument
symbol. It is possible that East Line will decide to place another
airliner at the entrance to the airport, but it will not be a Tu-114.

Now only three of the type remain preserved. The first stands in the
Moscow Monino Museum while another rests in the Ulyanov Aviation
Museum. The third Tu-114 is preserved in the Ukraine. It is planned
that in the near future it will supplement the exposure of the Kiev
State Museum of Aviation. Avia News hopes to obtain commentaries from
East Line relative to dismantling the Tu-114 on Monday.

Several Tu-114s were sawed up in several cities in the country after
the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
But not long ago at the Moscow Vnukovo Airport, they sawed the first
Soviet passenger jet airliner, a Tu-104 with the identification number USSR-L5412. And although the representatives of the airport declared that the aircraft would be restored, they sent the aircraft to the scrap metal heap. Another Tu-104 was placed on the same pedestal at this Moscow Airport, which had been located at the Vnukovo aircraft maintenance plant. They painted it, after appropriating the number of that earlier scrapped
Tu-104, and located it at the entrance to Vnukovo

Very sad- such a nice aircraf.

….so what happened to this fuselage of CCCP-76478 at Domodedovo?

On one of our visits to Domo, we asked if we could go and look at it – but it was long gone….

Ken

This is the Tupolev ANT-4.

I THINK it is actually an R-6 – a reconnaissance derivative of the ANT-4 (which was the TB-1 bomber).

On second thoughts….I think my memory is stirring……it is a G-1 – a TB-1(ANT-4) bomber converted into a transport.

The aircraft at Ulyanovsk is painted in the yellow and blue colours of ‘AviaArktika’ – the Soviet arctic arm of Aeroflot.

I took a few walk-round photos of it when I visited many years ago…..

Ken

PS – I am getting confused with the replica R-6 I photographed in at the National Aviation University in Kiev in June……

Great looking machine … can anyone comment briefly on the relationship, whether direct or simply passing, with the TU95 Bear?

In simple terms….I don’t have my refs to hand – so all this is from memory…..

The Tu-116 was a ‘straight’ Tu-95 converted into a VIP transport.

It had a small cabin in the fuselage with just a few seats and only a few were built.

The Tu-114 Cleat is the true airliner – using the Tu-95 wings & engines mated to a new increased-diameter fuselage with passenger cabin.

The Tu-126 Moss AWACS, used the Tu-114 airframe with a rotodome mounted on top.

Ken

PS – The Tu-95 has the same diameter fuselage as the B-29 – it being a direct descendant of the reverse-engineered Tu-4 Bull….

Great looking machine … can anyone comment briefly on the relationship, whether direct or simply passing, with the TU95 Bear?

is there eny Tu-126s left intact today ??????.

Am afraid not. The last one was scrapped somewhere in the mid-nineties…

By the way, for those REALLY interested, a book about the Tu-114 is due in November.
See http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1857802462/sr=1-20/qid=1154667749/ref=sr_1_20/202-9515392-3131865?ie=UTF8&s=books
or
http://tinyurl.com/jhajs for more info.

Horrifying that something as old and rare as an ANT-4 is left outside in a climate like Russia’s…

is there eny Tu-126s left intact today ??????.

Sad to hear about the Tu-114 at Domodedovo….but Flanker, what’s that big yellow taildragger in the third shot above?

This is the Tupolev ANT-4.

Sad to hear about the Tu-114 at Domodedovo….but Flanker, what’s that big yellow taildragger in the third shot above?

plus a Tu-116 (with a Tu95 fuselage, also at Ulyanovsk.)…

This one…..

Ken

….so what happened to this fuselage of CCCP-76478 at Domodedovo?

Double Shame 🙁 🙁

****** !!!

That leaves just the Monino example (and Ulyanovsk)………..

Ken

Well, it leaves three examples (there’s one at Krivoy Rog) plus a Tu-116 (with a Tu95 fuselage, also at Ulyanovsk.)

Tu114 Census
Serial c/n Owner and notes
CCCP-L5611 7270101 Preserved by Air Force Museum at Monino, Russia.
CCCP-76462 8270301 Tu116. Tu95 fuselage. Preserved by Museum of Civil Aviation, Ulyanovsk.
CCCP-76464 8270303 Preserved at Domodedovo. (scrapped)
CCCP-76470 9270404 Preserved by Tupolev at Vnukovo. (scrapped)
CCCP-76485 0270704 Preserved by Krivoy Rog Technical School.
CCCP-76490 1270804 Preserved by Museum of Civil Aviation, Ulyanovsk.

Source:
http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/Tu114%20Photographs.htm ,
a page of the newly-revived “Old Props” website by Paul Middleton.
As you can see some parts of this site still have to be updated…

Actually TWO Tu-114s are/were scrapped this summer:
Click at http://www.irishairpics.com/database/photo/1014784/
for the Vnukovo example which succumbed to the axeman last June…

****** !!!

That leaves just the Monino example (and Ulyanovsk)………..

Ken