It's probably just about doable. The Range Rovers were reportedly bound for the Trans Siberian Rally, which actually starts in Moscow.

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Russ...-Ruslan/758578

Pity they didn't build more of them TBH - they're a very useful aircraft when you need them for something outsize -especially if you're thinking of somewhere a bit out of the way................

Agree DRUK, that makes more sense than Siberia

A quick check shows that Volga-Dnepr's RA82043 was in Marseille on 28 June, RA82044 flew to Paris on 2 July and 79 flew to Leipzig on 29 June.

The Maximus Air Cargo one is still very active also.

The AvgasDinosaur

Thanks for that, the first one I saw was in the 90's when I worked at East Midlands Airport a impressive aircraft to watch. Like someone said in an earlier post they are frequent visitors to EMA. one was at RAF Waddington the other week.

AN-124 at RAF Waddington, 23rd June 2019.

What do you make to this ?

If the manufacturer recedes their type certificate I'm not quite sure how they can operate (but not a lawyer and certainly not here to start a political discussion)

Can't really add anything to the comments on that thread.

Clearly Ukraine has no jurisdiction over airspace or territory other than its own, so it's hardly in a position to "arrest" the aircraft or stop it operating in Europe or elsewhere (as we have seen).

Just part of the ongoing spat between Ukraine and Russia.

Aircraft without a valid TC or CoA can be denied to enter a national airspace by that national aviation authority under the 1944 UN Chigaco Agreement Also, I don't think they will be insured by any insurance broker or company.

As type certificate holders for the An-124, the Ukranian company can certainly stop the type from flying by withdrawing said certificate. But the fact that this is going through the courts implies that normal communication lines are not being used, and it may be more of a political action than an airworthiness related one. The type most likely is seen as a strategic asset by the Russian side, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they have taken steps to 'disconnect' the Russian operation from any Ukranian influence, as is implied by the original article linked to in the thread that atakacs referenced.

Which would be rather a Pyrrhic victory as it would ground Ukrainian operator Antonov Airlines' aircraft as well. Presumably why they haven't done that.

VDA's RA-82044 heading NW across Essex at 26000 and climbing as I type...

I worked in Heavylift Ops at the time the IL76 and An124's came on the scene. Certainly the IL76 (and Pelita Hercules) were on oil spill standby in the early days. Indeed, the IL76 crew complained about recency and we organised some training circuits at Stansted. I went along, but after two or three touch and go's the tower said the noise complaint phone line was ringing off the wall, and could we stop. After a while both the Herc and the IL76 were released to operate charters. We also had an AirStan IL76 we used.

The Herc crew were billeted at the Flint Cross Hotel near Duxford. The Russians lived in an old manor house near Bishops Stortford, plus some accommodation in Saffron Walden. I don't remember any crews living in caravans.

Heavylift Volga Dnepr (it was a joint venture) had about eight AN214's on our ops board.

Choice.
 

:E Yes, well take the one in the middle!:ugh::E