The oldest Turbolet in Russia is possible to see on sport airfield at Borki, Tver Region. It's L-410MU, c/n 781110 with 2181K registration, flying for local troopers. There are very few flyable L-410s in version M remaining, e.g. TN-AGD (c/n 781116) aircraft in Benin. It is necessary to mention two a/c in MA version closer, reg. OK-DZA (c/n 730207) flying at Kunovice and OM-SAB (c/n 750405) based at Slovak Dubnica nad Vahom-Slavnica, which spend most of the time on Czech airfields, using by troo...
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Interesting Ukrainian Turbolet visited Bydgoszcz this February. Blue-grey L-410UVP reg. UR-VTV (c/n 810705, ex CCCP-67069) with Baltika title is going to base there Rovno Universal Avia company for mail flights.
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Next L-410 was identified in Democratic Republic of Congo. It's an L-410UVP reg. 9Q-CAZ (c/n 790205, ex UR-67169). There are still many Turbolets with unknown constructions numbers for us in this country, e.g. 9Q-CEM (seen at Kinshasa February 2004), 9Q-CEO (Kinshasa November 2005), 9Q-CEU, 9Q-CQX (Lagos, Nigeria in March 2002) and 9Q-CZN (Kinshasa February 2004). It is quite difficult to find informations about these aircraft flying in Congo and any help to find previous identity is welcomed.
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Bulgarian Heli Air Services company joined to the fleet three L-410UVP-E. The aircrafts are L-410UVP-E10 reg. LZ-CCR (c/n 892301, ex SP-FTX), UVP-E reg. LZ-CCS (c/n 902425, ex 3D-EER) and UVP-E10 reg. LZ-CCT (c/n 912528, ex ST-DND).
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One of the new L-410 Estonian company AirEst arrived to Prague today. L-410UVP-E reg. ES-LLA (c/n 902416) technical landed on the way from Ljubljana to Ostrava. It returned from lease in Equatorial Guinea, where operated cargo flights by local Guinea Cargo company. Aircraft is still in full c/s of its previous owner Kazan 2nd Aviation Enterprise, but AirEst titles are applied. There were interesting additional "Operated by Guinea Cargo" titles under pilot cabin.
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There is L-410UVP-E reg. TG-TJL flying in Guatemala since 2002. The identity was not known so far. The news is that this aircraft is ex TI-AVU reg. (c/n 952623) of Aero Costa Sol.
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L-410UVP-E13 reg. OK-UDS (c/n 892321) of Silver Air was repainted in Ostrava into new c/s last year. The aircraft departed to Italy for lease to DHL flights (small sticker under cabin windows) at once. It returned back for short time at the end of the last year and was seen on flights for DHL between Ostrava and Prague. OK-UDS is going depart again to Italy shortly and change OK-SLD aircraft, which will return back to Czech Republic.
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Estonian company AirEst bought to their fleet two new L-410UVP-E aircrafts. First L410 is reg. ES-LLA (c/n 902416, ex RA-67670) and ES-LLG (c/n 872011, ex RA-67673), placed at the end of the last year.
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L-410FG reg. 1523 (c/n 851523) ex Czech Air Force, already wfu for longer time and stored at Prague-Kbely, was broken up in October 2005. The fuselage was used for an exercise Air Accident 2005 in military training area Brdy (Jince) in the nearby villages Skorice and Trokavec, where "played" a role (together with fuselage of An-2) of crashed Boeing 737-800.
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Icar Air did not start operation between Sarajevo and Zagreb for DHL. The DHL flights to Sarajevo go via Ancona, with L410 of Czech Silver Air (OK-WDT at the present time) on the last leg.
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