Tupolev TU-154M - Kunovice, Czech Republic
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Tupolev TU-154M in Kunovice Aviation Museum
Waymark Code: WM108A0
Location: Zlínský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/20/2019
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Kunovice Aviation Museum was founded in 1970 by members of the Moravian Aeroclub, Alois Hrácek and Jirí Marek. Initially it was built as a museum or cooperative aircraft produced in a factory in Kunovice (
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The air museum at Kunovice focuses its exhibition primarily on aircraft built by the Let company (
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The museum’s collection also includes a selection of former Czechoslovak air force aircraft including MiG-15, MiG-19 and MiG-21 fighter jets as well as Sukhoi Su-7 attack aircraft, a Mil Mi-4 helicopter and two variants of the Avia Av-14 transport, the Av-14 being the Czech license built version of the Illyushin Il-14.
The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by Aeroflot and its subsidiaries (137.5 million/year or 243.8 billion passenger km in 1990), remaining the standard domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. It was exported to 17 non-Russian airlines and used as a head-of-state transport by the air forces of several countries.
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Tupolev TU-154M OK-BYZ (also called "Zuzana" or Nagano expres)
Date of Production: 1996
Construction Number: 1016
Serial Number / Registration Code: OK-BYZ
Operator: Czech Air Force
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