LZ-TUP_1987-09_MUC_1290_AMC

 

Photo from the Andreas Müller collection, slide kindly provided by Michael Bernhard.

 

 

München-Riem

September 1987

 

LZ-TUP

Tupolev Tu-134AK

1351303

Balkan Bulgarian Airlines

 

LZ-TUP at Riem in the final Balkan Bulgarian Airlines colour scheme.

 

Delivered in 1971 to Bulgarian Air Force in Balkan Bulgarian Airlines colours. With Bulgarian Air Force as 050 by December 1978. Back with Balkan Bulgarian Airlines as LZ-TUP by 1980. With Bulgarian Air Force as LZ D 050 by July 1995. With Hemus Air as LZ-TUP by September 1997. Last noted SOF 10 February 2004; bought by a film studio to make movies about hijacking airplanes (as LZ-ACS with fictitious airline Transair International); scrapped in 2004. (Sources: rzjets.net, scramble.nl, ddr-luftfahrt.de)

 

Detailed aircraft information from scramble.nl:

www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/176_67614

 

LZ-TUP with Bulgarian Government at ARN in June 1974:

www.flickr.com/photos/162303104@N07/54075463328

 

This airframe as LZ D 050 with Bulgarian Air Force at FFD in July 1995 (port and starboard sides with different titles):

www.airhistory.net/photo/433980/LZ-D-050

www.airhistory.net/photo/433979/LZ-D-050

 

LZ-TUP with Hemus Air at PMI in February 2000 (port side):

www.flickr.com/photos/57646436@N06/43844753125

 

LZ-TUP with Hemus Air at LCA in June 2001 (starboard side):

www.airhistory.net/photo/304353/LZ-TUP

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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