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Two more serials
MiG-21bis 228 first flight after overhaul, with Romanian roundels on 23 April
MiG-21bis 241 with full colors and markings on 12 June
photos here:
http://romanian-spotters.forumer.ro/t76 ... iunie-2014

MiG-21 bis serial 202 red spotted yesterday at Bacau PHOTO HERE: http://romanian-spotters.forumer.ro/t7440-aeroportul-bacau-octombrie-2013 Apart from the new comms antenna (the large one behind the front landing gear), also notice new IFF antennas (small, grey, on top of the tail and under the intake)

Sorry, I made a mistake, they broughy only one L-39ZO serial 254 (origin unknown) and 8 MiGs (probably 2 UM and 6 bis) Their pilots learned to fly on Aerostar Festival light planes (company owned) at Boboc and on their overhauled L-39 at Bacau. This was spotted only in natural metal overall, with Ro...

MiG-21UM serial 340, Mozambique AF
It wasn't a Lancer.
The Mozambicans brought 2 L-39 and 8 MiG-21 bis/UM for overhaul at Aerostar.
Their cadets are also being trained at Boboc and Bacau since winter 2012

Here's the explanation: Portugal had on sale 9 F-16 MLU (7 AM and 2 BM) and didn't want to sell anything else from its AF. Romania wanted 12 (a minimal squadron), and conditioned the deal on this number. So the Portuguese had to come up with 3 additional MLUs, not from their stocks, that's why they ...

Securitate Puma's shooting at unarmed people in Timisoara... That didn't happen, Roel. Securitatea did not have any Pumas or armed aircraft / helicopters, and no aircraft opened fire during the repression before Ceausescu left (16-21 Dec). In the confusion and chaos that followed after 22 december ...

In fact it's an exact copy of the Soviet Ekranoplan ESKA-1 from the 70's (except the engine type and open cockpit):

http://www.se-technology.com/wig/html/m ... =&craft=33

http://mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru/mk_other ... noplan.htm

Since almost a month I'm experiencing problems with logging in to Scramble wiki. After I log in, nothing works beyond the main page - when i click on military aviation, it goes directly to an error page with the message The website cannot display the page HTTP 500 Most likely causes: •The website is...

Some sources within the MoD indicate that a small number of Lancer C will go trough yet another life extension program at Bacau, in order to be able to serve post 2013, only for air policing tasks. The refurbishment will cost 1,2 million US dollars per plane, with about a quarter of that sum going t...

A MiG-21 PFM to be more pecise

The CH-53 hit a stone cliff while flying in fog at 15:20 local hour, in formation with another CH-53. Don't the Yasurs have ground mapping radar or something? The Romanian was an Air Force Captain, not a soldier. The crash site is more precisely S-E of the village Fundata, in Bucegi Mountains. At le...

Not a surprising choice, considering that all 11 MRH-90 delivered so far are grounded since April after an in-flight engine failure.

Serial 53 , Polish made An-2T delivered in 1982 From the 14 on board, 12 died , 4 from the Air Force - among them Commander Nicolae Jianu, chief of the Air Force School at Boboc. The other 8 (one of which passed away at the hospital) were Navy, from a small elite diver unit (our equivalent of the US...

A few details: The 24 aircraft will be Block 25s. It is not yet known if they will be taken directly form a USAF unit or from the ones sitting in the desert. The full price is 1,3 billion US dollars, it includes everything: refurbishment (overhaul), techincal assistance and spares for 3-5 years, sim...

a few more details...
the third Spartan (spotted recently in Italy) will be delivered later this year, with two each following in 2011 and 2012