Originally Posted by
boeing_eng
I seem to recall the Tarom IL-18's were operating school ski charters...I'm sure CJ will confirm, but no doubt the lack of a towbar was the reason for using the Pond?
School ski flights rings a bell. Think the flights were repeated the following week (18/2/89). Probably coincided with half term holidays.
11/2/89
11/2/89
As boeing_eng suggests, IL-18's always parked nose out due to the lack of a towbar. In 1969 there was a fortnightly flight
to Bourgas operated by Bulair/Balkan, which I always remember parking nose out around stand 1.
LZ-BEP 5/7/69
1971 and 1972 brought a weekly Tarom IL-18 which usually parked nose out stand 9. Other IL-18's I remember seeing were these:-
HA-MOI 14/8/80, brought an orchestra in IIRC
D-AOAS 19/10/93
A couple of LOT examples operated for Tarom in 1971 (SP-LSF 13/6/71 and SP-LSA 20/6/71). SP-LSC operated a Court Line flight on 12/8/73. and another LOT example (SP-LSI) visited on 17/2/81, from Warsaw to Katowice. Last time I saw an IL-18 at the airport was Romavia YR-IMZ on 25/8/99.