What A Laugh!

Besides, it has no engine:

Also note – on image in Gkozak’s post T-6 have not-broken glass in cockpit forward part; and on this image some glass is broken.
And the plane was painted by man, which absolutely understood nothing in aviation. This painter wanted only one – to paint the plane most brightly, and – in his opinion – it is attractive. It is not real Iranian colour scheme.

In their museum are more “unusually painted” aircrafts. For example, A-26B Invader (44-34759, former US-registered N956R). Sometimes it looked like this (airliners.net):

and sometimes it looked like this (michaelprophet.com):

Note national Iranian colours on it’s rudder !!!

Also note another colour scheme of aircraft.
(Although all of us know well, that Iranian Air Forces did not use any Invader, anytime).

It looks as if they paint planes as it is pleasant to them, without any authenticity – “THEY MUST BE PAINTED – AND PAINTED ANYWAY !”:D

Regards,
Flyer.

Thanks for the additional info, adding even more to the laughs! And I love the fuselage roundel with “T6”- no doubt primitive friend or foe ID! This is great! As they say- ROTFL!!!

Unusual Iranian T-6

An Iranian T-6 in very unusual markings, on display at the Aerospace Exhibition Center, Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran. Note the modified fin/rudder and tail wheel, as well. Either that, or it may be the tail section from some other sort of aircraft! From http://www.airliners.net. Photo by Saeed Ezadi.

Now THIS is a Small Air Force!!!

Here’s a really strange one- Hutt River Principality. It’s a micronation that declared independence from Australia in 1970. At this time they have one Cessna 182 in their “air force”. They’ve been rumored to have had a number of aircraft before this. In fact, a POC from the principality informed me that they may have had an Avro Lincoln! Seems a stretch to me, but who knows? The photo is by a gentleman named Lachlan Brendan.

Acknowledged

Keep up! Southern Sudan is now self-governing, with its own armed forces (government forces have withdrawn), & is holding a referendum on independence. There is no genocide taking place there. The war has been over for 6 years.

Thanks. I realized that I had made an inaccurate statement shortly after I posted, but didn’t have a chance to edit it until now. I meant to say the genocide currently taking place in Darfur, and that formerly occurring in southern Sudan. I do think, however, that the there will be ongoing military conflict of one sort or another between South Sudan and Sudan once independence is formalized.

Thank you very much Flyer!
very interesting info there,

I guess we´ll see a camouflaged and light armed safat-03 in future…
Regards.-

Yeah, to launch ongoing incursions into South Sudanese airspace once they have voted for independence. With maintenance and other such indirect assistance from China, of course. What a wonderful alliance. A co-dependent relationship at its very finest.

You can’t argue with success. The Mi-8/17 is an outstanding helicopter, most evidenced by how many countries have used it and continue to do so.

Another Sri Lankan An-32 Picture

Pure gold, definitely SFS5304 on that 27 and I can see SFW5201, SFW5203 & SFW5204 on the Kfir’s, pity the F-7’s aren’t readable apart from SFTXXXX on the FT-7.

That An-32 in the Ukraine seems to be the only one wearing those blue bars!

I have attached another picture of an An-32 with bars on the fuselage. I have also attached a picture of a Sri Lankan Balliol with old markings. Note the orange and green bars on the fuselage roundel. It appears that the An-32 is wearing a smaller version of the markings on the Balliol. I wonder if there’s any connection with the blue bars on the other one?