Tupolev Tu-134A-3, LZ-TUG / 7349858, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (LZ / LAZ)
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Registration: LZ-TUG
Construction Number: 7349858
Model Tupolev Tu-134A-3
Operator: Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (LZ / LAZ)
Airport: Budapest - Ferihegy (BUD / LHBP), Hungary
Photographer: Miklos SZABO
Date Taken: 18/01/1999
Date Submitted: 29/05/2014
Delivered originally as VIP variant of Tu-134A to the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic March 30 1977, as OK-BYT. WFU September 26 1983 and within days sold to the Government of the Peoples' Republic of Bulgaria as LZ-TUG. Later converted to the more advanced A-3variant. However some sources suggest, that the aircraft remained in Government use, this picture shows, sometimes entered into passenger traffic. Seen here releasing from the push-back tug in front of Terminal B before return to Sofia as a BALKAN scheduled flight. Last noted March 4 2004 in Sofia. Scanned from an old slide.
Picture ID:1454756