Remaining Signs of Interflug

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Re: Remaining Signs of Interflug

Ungelesener Beitragvon Flieger Bernd » Do 27. Jan 2011, 18:31

interDDR-Australia hat geschrieben: ... I often wonder which aircraft types IF would be flying if they were around today? - any suggestions, perhaps new destinations too?

Tupoljev 244 of course :lol:

or Airbus :roll:
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Re: Remaining Signs of Interflug

Ungelesener Beitragvon interDDR-Australia » Di 8. Mär 2011, 01:18

I have just received a newspaper clipping of the restored IL-18 DM-STA in Deutsche Lufthansa colours being put into position in Leipzig! This will be a stop on my next DDR-aviation tour! We have visited Lady Agnes at Stolln a few times but if anyone has information on other IF static displays it would be greatly appreciated! Maybe we could gate-crash an Interflug reunion party while we are there - LOL! or perhaps start our own for "want-to-be-Interflug-crew-from-Australia!"

Hello from the upside-down part of the globe!
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Re: Remaining Signs of Interflug

Ungelesener Beitragvon interDDR-Australia » Di 8. Mär 2011, 01:21

If Interflug was still around today maybe it would have been part of the Red Star Alliance! - LOL! - no? I'll keep thinking! Oh well!
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Re: Remaining Signs of Interflug

Ungelesener Beitragvon Kilo Mike Sierra » Di 8. Mär 2011, 01:51

INTERFLUG's Il-62 DDR-SEF, which used to collect dirt and moisture at Leipzig airport, has recently been sold to a local restaurant proprietor. Subsequently it has been dismantled :cry: and trucked to a downtown location, where it has been reassembled awaiting conversion to a combined restaurant/event venue. In the meantime, the airframe has fallen victim to some misunderstood graffiti "artists" that used night cover as an inspiring force. The result looks accordingly i.e. grossly uninspired - as usual. Chances are that this new layer of colour-dirt will not last long, because the surface had not been properly prepared. :lol:
We do hope that the new owner of Echo Foxtrot will succeed making this old lady look glamorous again. We are losely following his progress here.
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Mein Auto kann ich innerhalb von 5 Minuten komplett "aufladen" (sogar überall unterwegs) und komme damit ca. 700 km weit.

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Re: Remaining Signs of Interflug

Ungelesener Beitragvon Kilo Mike Sierra » Fr 10. Jun 2011, 11:51

interDDR-Australia hat geschrieben:...
if anyone has information on other IF static displays it would be greatly appreciated!
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There is an aviation museum called "Flugausstellung L.+P. Junior" near Hermeskeil in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It has become the final home of Interflug's Ilyushin Il-18D DDR-STH, Tupolev Tu-134A DDR-SCK and the crop duster Let Z-37 Čmelák DDR-SSJ.


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Ilyushin Il-18D by KOBUS 2C, on Flickr


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Tupolev Tu-134A by KOBUS 2C, on Flickr


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Let Z-37A Čmelák by KOBUS 2C, on Flickr


If this is not enough, there are more rare airliners to admire:

- Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation (D-ALIN) of Lufthansa
- Vickers Viscount 814 (D-ANAM) of Lufthansa
- De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C (G-BDIW) of Dan-Air London
- Vickers VC-10 (G-ARVF) ex BOAC
- Junkers Ju 52/3m (D-CIAD), actually a CASA 352L

...plus countless other planes and helicopters both from the East and the West.


Here comes another teaser from the museum. This is an Ilyushin Il-14P built by VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden.

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Ilyushin Il-14P by KOBUS 2C, on Flickr
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Mein Auto kann ich innerhalb von 5 Minuten komplett "aufladen" (sogar überall unterwegs) und komme damit ca. 700 km weit.


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