YI-AIP_1979-05-24_MUC_1600_SR

 

Photo taken by Stefan Röhrich.

 

 

München-Riem

1979-05-24 (24 May 1979)

 

YI-AIP

Ilyushin Il-76

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Iraqi Air Force (full Iraqi Airways colours)

 

Finally without the veil it wore for three days, YI-AIP is lined up for take-off on Riem's runway 07.

 

The first Il-76 to visit Riem, YI-AIP arrived on 21 May and left on 24 May 1979. It would be followed by other Iraqi Air Force/Iraqi Airways Il-76s: YI-AIO (July 1979), YI-AIM (May 1980), YI-AKQ (February 1982), YI-AKO (April 1982), YI- AKX (April 1982) and YI-ALQ (August 1983). Probably there were more during the mid and late 1980s.

 

Information from flickr - thanks to Phil Rawlings:

Delivered to the Iraqi Air Force as YI-AIP in September 1977. To Gromov Flight Research Institute as CCCP-76529 in 1989. Became RA-76529 Aeroflot Zhukovsky Flight Research Institute used to test AN-70 Turbofan, at Farnborough Air Show in 1994 and stored 2002 Zhukovsky. Return to service 06.15. Oldest airworthy Il-76 as of 2019.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/85_54380

 

This airframe as CCCP-76529 at FAB in September 1994 (An-70 turbofan testbed):

www.flickr.com/photos/133813370@N04/50794232853

www.flickr.com/photos/141169709@N06/51185543135

 

RA-76529 at Zhukovsky in August 1995:

www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/30815395322

 

RA-76529 stored at Zhukovsky in August 2012:

www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/8758073033

 

76529 with Gromov Flight Research Institute at Zhukovsky in January 2016 (bare metal):

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/63053_1457811690.jpg

 

76529 with Gromov Flight Research Institute at Zhukovsky in August 2018 and March 2019:

onespotter.com/photograph/djE6OTQ0OTI5OjEyODB4MS4wOjEwOHg...

onespotter.com/photograph/djE6OTY4MTM5OjEyODB4MS4wOjEwMWg...

russianplanes.net/images/to282000/281443.jpg

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.

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