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Il’yushin Il-62M side view

Il'yushin Il-62M

Il’yushin Il-62M CCCP-86656 (the first airliner of this modification) tested in GosNII GA

Il’yushin Il-18D on slideshow

Il'yushin Il-18D

Il’yushin Il-18D CCCP-75466 tested in GosNII GA

Beriyev Be-14 side view

Beriyev Be-14

The unique Be-14 search & rescue aircraft (izdeliye 2E), “14 Red”, was delivered to the 49th OPLAE DD after completing the test programme but rarely used for SAR missions. It was scrapped in 1995

Beriyev Be-12 side view

Beriyev Be-12

Beriyev Be-12 “88 Yellow” (c/n 6600501), 49th Independent Long-Range ASW Squadron (OPLAE DD), Kosa NAS, early 1970s. This aircraft powered by improved AI-20DM engines was broken up in the late 1990s

Beriyev Be-12 on slideshow

Beriyev Be-12

«07 Yellow» (c/n 0602002), the Baltic Fleet Air Arm’s sole surviving Beriyev Be-12, as it looked in the late 1990s

Beriyev Be-6 side view

Beriyev Be-6

Beriyev Be-6 «01 Yellow», 17th Independent Maritime Long-Range Reconnaissance Squadron, Kosa NAS, 1958


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