Dnipropetrovsk - Ukraine

Dnipropetrovsk - Ukraine

September 2008

In September 2008, my friend and colleague Pieter Alderden and I visited Ukraine. Next to some flights in vintage Russian transports, like; - AeroSvit/Lugansk Airlines An-24RV Kyiv-Borispol to Dnipropetrovsk, Motor Sich An-140 Zaporizhzhia to Borispol, and Donbassaero Yak-42D Borispol to Lviv, we visited the State Aviation Museum at Zhuliany Airport. Very sadly, Pieter passed away in June 2017.

Below, I focus on our flight with Lugansk Airlines / AeroSvit An-24.

Boryspil domestic airport in 2008.

Old school interior footage of the domestic terminal at Boryspil

Fortunately, Pieter spoke quite a bit russian.

Zavod imeni Likhachyova (ZiL) 130 fire truck is on standby!

This 1975 vetereran, was still doing good service in 2008.

UR-… of Motor Sich taking a break at Boryspil, Ukraine.

An-24RV (Reaktivnyy V – boosted V) is the turbojet boosted export version, similar to the An-24V but fitted with a 1,985-lb (8830 N) thrust auxiliary turbojet engine in the starboard nacelle.

This An-24RV rolled-off the Antonov-line in December 1975. With line number 104-03 she was delivered to Aeroflot as CCCP-47312. She was transferred to Ukraine International Airlines in June 1993. After six years she was acquired by Kharkow Airlines. After a short spell with them she again changed hands and Lugansk Airlines became her proud owner. She ended her days with AeroSvit, still as UR-47312 and was put out to grass at Boryspil in 2010.