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Registration: LZ-BEA

Construction Number: 188010802

Model Ilyushin Il-18GrM

Operator: Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (LZ / LAZ)

Airport: Budapest - Ferihegy (BUD / LHBP), Hungary

Photographer: Miklos SZABO

Date Taken: 10/1993

Date Submitted: 29/05/2014

Delivered for BALKAN – Bulgarian Airlines as IL-18D (D for the Russian “Dahlniy”, means extended-range) November 17 1968 as LZ-BEA. Early 1990s converted to IL-18GrM which is the modified (“Modifitseerovanniy”) basic cargo version of the type (Russian: “Groozovoy”) with a 3,5 x 1,82 m Side Cargo Door (SCD) on the port-front fuselage, replacing the first three passenger windows. Seen here on the cargo ramp. Last seen stored Varna, Bulgaria September 23 1997. Broken up since. Scanned from an old slide.

Picture ID:1454754

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