more…
IAR-93B 229 just prior to touchdown

and two recent images of DC #600 with the foreplanes in the AF Academy courtyard at Brasov

Ok, some more finds:
lots of images from the graveyard at Craiova taken in summer 2006 can be found here:
http://www.targeta.co.uk/craiova_2006.htm

George, are you still around? I remember you were asking for pictures of #002 and 114 from the Bucharest museum in the original paint scheme, as they were in October 2002


first prototype 001 at Craiova with the test pilots (among them Coman Corneliu, Dobre Stan, Gheorghe Tamas, Vagner Stefanel, Ionescu Mihai) and ground crew

two-seater 183 while in service

Komsomolsk-na-Amur (KnAAPO) – where they normally produce single-seaters. The tandem two-seaters are normally built at Irkutsk (IAAPO)

Didn’t the Chinese also request that their Su-30s be built at KnAAPO?

What about the An-26 nearby? Is it in active use by the Moldovan AF or is it also to be sold?

As I said in my post just below of the picture poted by Calimero – it’s an An-30 (former Romanian AF #1103)

I don’t know who they belong to, but they surely have the Moldovan AF roundel. At the end of the MiG line there’s a An-30 – that’s a former Romanian AF serial 1103 – sold to the Moldovans early last year.

Do they have any customers for the Fulcrums? Or did they perform the overhaul just to make them more attractive for potential buyers?

Cy24driver1
The Egyptian MiG you posted is definatly a PFS (forward hinged canopy, small chord tail, parachute container above the engine,…) not an MF as the title of the photo says

I’d be very curious about the Moldovan Fulcrums – are these two part of the 6 that still remain in country after the major sale to USA in 1997? They look very worn – any idea when was the picture taken?

IRAQI_PILOT, could you please give us some detail about the Iraqi Su-24? Things like:
-when were delivered (all together or in batches), how many (some say 24, others 25), what weapons came with them
-where and how long did you train on them in the USSR
-your general impression about the plane (compared with Su-22/other types you flew)
-how many pilots were operational on the Su-24 in January 1991? I heard none…
thank you