Russian Aircraft, Hawarden 17-02-1999

[Beemer]

I covered this subject in the old forum and as it was all lost I thought I would resurrect it once again as most of the aircraft have now gone.
03 Yellow and 06 Red, Mil Mi-24 Hinds
Mil-Mi24 03Yellow06RedMilMI-24Hinds by Beemer328i, on Flickr

35 Red Su-17M
35 Red Sukhoi Su-17M by Beemer328i, on Flickr

54 Red Su-17
54RedSukhoiSu-17 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

CCCP-19733 An-2
CCCP- An-2 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

CCCP-17939 An-2
CCCP-17939 (LY-LFC) An-2 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

CCCP-20320 Mil MI-2 Hoplite
CCCP-20320 Mil MI-2 Hoplite by Beemer328i, on Flickr

Mig-23
Mig-23 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

Mig-23
07 red Mig23 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

Mig-27 and Mig-23
Mig-27 and Mig-23 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

Mig-27
Mig-27 (2) by Beemer328i, on Flickr

CCCP-20619 Mil MI-2 Hoplite
CCCP-20619 Mil MI-2 Hoplite by Beemer328i, on Flickr

[elevation76]

Where was the final resting place for these airframes?Are the Mig 23 and Mig 27 now resident at the Museum at Newark?

[ronturner]

Great photos. Why were these machines at Hawarden. Collector, scrap merchant, museum,, etc?

Rt

[Beemer]

Just found another photo.

56 Red Yak-52
Yak-52. 56Red by Beemer328i, on Flickr

[idlewild]

I can remember them being in a compound, at the Royal Seaforth dock, in about 1993, I was lucky enough to gain access to the compound, and had a close up look at all of them.
idlewild

[ian531]

Thanks for re-posting these shots Beemer

I'm sure that a lot of the AN-2's were re-registered to the Latvian register. I will try and dig out some more details

Ian

[ian531]

Finally got round to digging out the Latvian registrations, only to find that Carmedic has beat me to it

Ian

[crumb]

I remember them all at Seaforth docks. When I went to see them it felt like it was one of the coldest days the planet had ever experienced. It was blowing a gale and very very cold. Impressive sight, as in those days unless you had travelled on the continent you would never have seen so much Russian made hardware at the same time.