IL-76 at LHR!!!
 

A Russian IL-76 landed at LHR at 13:15 this afternoon!

Saw it great! 223rd Joint stock company. Putin must be coming??
Its gone from its original parking spot in the cargo cul-de-sac, any clues where its gone now? Callsign was TTF9xxx

Also see that Concorde has come back again at the end of Rwy 23!

IL-76 at LHR
 

Ever thought it was bring the £73 million in cash for Abramovich after his high percentage sale of Sniefit, 73 million has to weigh a fair fit bit, !!

ahh could have been!!! It looked more official though today...

There has also been a Tu154 operated by the Rossiya State Transport Company (mostly used by high ranking Russian officials) into Heathrow this week

Fried Chicken

I believe that up to 4 IL-62s will be seen at LHR this Monday also

Hi

can anyone provide more details of the IL62's, as if 4 are due in on Monday then I'll ride down from Lancashire!

Regards

Reggie AKA The Cameraman

Russians with Putin and I think there is also a Tu154 from the Czech Republic.
Something to do with some EU meeting in London?

Hi Graham,

any idea of times etc or where I can get an additional info?

Regards

The Cameraman

Not got a clue I'm afraid

1x IL62 Just landed at LHR, what a noise....!! Followed a few minutes later by a go round of what looked and sounded like a SyrianArab B747SP. 1900z

Another IL62 just landed, slamming into reverse thrust raised a few eyebrows, again just now.. fast taxi off of 27L

I just updated this again at 1951Z due to the 2nd aircraft landing

There has been an IL-62 parked up at gatwick for the whole day as well, is this connected?

Hi Chaps,

the following are at Heathrow and I understand are staying until Wednesday;

RA86559 IL62
RA86561 IL62
RA86467 IL62
RA78842 IL76

Regards
The Cameraman

My piccy of the IL-76 is at:
RA78842 landing 27L

Looks like Putin's Il-96 has well and truly bitten the dust, for now anyway, a summit is surely the time for a "mine's bigger than yours" display on the Heathrow VIP parking area.

For those who don't know, it had a brake failure on landing at Helsinki last month, actually with El Pres on board. Fortunately they didn't overrun, though that presumably would have caused some reverse thrust ! Pres went home on the backup Il-62 and following some doubtless typically Russian "full and frank exchanges of opinion" the entire Il-96 production has been grounded since.

BTW speaking of a "mine's bigger than yours" contest, apparently the following took place at Washington DC in the 1990s, in front of a RAF VC-10 and an Air Force One 747.

John Major : "Wow, Mr President, I admire your plane"
Bill Clinton : "Thank you, Prime Minister".
Another British Minister : "Prime Minister, I must introduce you to Richard Branson. He's got eight of them !"

Some information in R&N at the time.

Ironically, Moscow Times is reporting that yesterday the Federal Transportation Inspection Service signed off the IL-96 to resumne flying. Fair amount of argument about the situation, with the some IL-96 pilots and at least one of the airlines saying the grounding was unnecessary.

As an aside, the latest Moscow Times article describes the Il-96 as:

And I thought the British press were good at putting the boot in any indigenous product!

I can see two IL-76s out my office window now, but I am in Afghanistan at the moment... They are a bit more common out here.:ok:

Lots of IL76 here at SHJ, also frequent and various types of Antonov, theres nothing like a D-30KP or 4 to send you to sleep :-)

Heathrow Director... good pic of the 76 on finals there.. right place at the right time eh..?

Reminds me of the days I was an air cadet. Back in the late nineties was at RAF Fairford for the RIAT (1997 i think it was). Managed to get about the IL76 and speak to the crew! :D