YK-AIC_1987-07_MUC_1290_WH

 

Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

July 1987

 

YK-AIC

Tupolev Tu-154M

85A710

Syrian Arab Airlines (Syrian Air)

 

YK-AIC is taxiing to runway 25 for take-off. Sometimes Tu-154Ms appeared on the regular MUC flights Syrian Air usually operated with B747SPs or B727-200s.

 

Syrian Air had three Tu-154Ms: YK-AIA, YK-AIB and YK-AIC. All three of them were seen at Riem multiple times. YK-AIA and YK-AIC are apparently still stored at DAM (2023), while YK-AIB was ferried from DAM to Aviakor at Samara in November 2005 and probably scrapped there sometime after September 2006.

 

YK-AIC was manufactured in March 1985 and registered to Syrian Air on 1 May 1985. Last seen operational at ATH on 25 May 2001; seen stored at DAM January 2002/May 2010; two Tu-154s still visible (YK-AIA and YK-AIC?) on Google Earth 2021.

Source: www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/181_68485

 

Two stored Tu-154s still visible at DAM on Google Maps in 2023:

maps.app.goo.gl/DqkiV4j7t53EN4qX7

 

YK-AIC with Syrian Air active at SHJ in 1999:

www.flickr.com/photos/120290459@N03/13224184083

 

YK-AIC and YK-AIA stored at DAM along with B727 YK-AGF in September 2004:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/8/8/0658883.jpg

 

YK-AIC stored at DAM in April 2006:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/5/5/1029554.jpg

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).

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