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Old 29th Apr 2005, 14:49
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Tupolev-144

Was in Ulyanvosk for work 2 weeks ago, and while leaving the airport grounds, drove past a small avaition museum park.

Antonov 22's, tupolev's and Yak's, but to my surprise, there in the middle is a Tupolev-144!....

I thought there was only 2 inexistence left (germany and the US). but was gladly proved wrong!......unfortunately did not have my camera with me, but colleagues who work in that part of the world are forwarding pics to me.


Does any one know how many of the original 17 are left and where they are?

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I saw one at the Monino Museum near Moscow a couple of years ago, no doubt still there.
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When was a TU-144 seen in the US?
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Friday afternoon, got me interested, not a lot to do so off I went...

www.airlinerlist.com

seems to illustrate the following:

Single examples to be found at: Monino, Samara, Vornezh, Ulyanovsk and Sinsheim.

At least five examples seem to be or have been at Zhukovsky, as of last reports. Surely there is a spotter around who can confirm or deny this. This number includes the Tu 144LL operated with NASA.

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Here's another list of airframes and their fate:

http://www.moninoaviation.com/tu144sn.html
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NASA were using a Tu-144 at their Dryden research center during the late nineties.

A search for NASA & tu-144 will bring up plenty of interesting results.

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Did it actually fly in the US?
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Did it actually fly in the US?
No, the Americans came to Zhukovski to use it.
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That's what I thought.
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Sorry, thought that since NASA had it, thought it had been in US.



2-14-1977
Tu-144S
77110
Used for passenger flights between Moscow and
Kazakhstan.
On display at the Museum of
Civil Aviation in Ulyanovsk.



That must be the one I saw.

Spoke to a colleague working there, he will forward pics this week
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