Tu-154 at Minsk-Velikiydvor (MSQ/UMMS)

[ehusmann]

In front of the terminal of Minsk-Velikiydvor (Minsk-2) are a number of planes including one Tu-154. According to Google Earth images the Tu-154 must have been installed between 2010 and 2012. There has been only one, never two, yet there are pictures of two different ones, seemingly at the same spot. From 2012 till May 2013 it was the EW-85706. No picture exist of this one since. From July 2013 however, it is the EW-85581. I have only been able to find one picture of that one before, from 2007 when it was derelict at Minsk-2.

So question is, has the 85706 been repainted to represent the 85581 (which is a B2 version by the way, not an M like the 85706), or have they replaced the whole machine?

Erwin

[De Verrekieker]

The EW-85706 is switched between oktober 2012 and juli 2013 for the EW-85581.
Where the 85706 currenty is is unknown (stored or scrapped?)

Greetz

[ehusmann]

Checking more pictures for differences does indeed seem to indicate it is a different machine.

Erwin

[f4phantom]

according the soviet transport database:

l/n MSQ 23apr11; seen MSQ 16aug12 being painted for preservation; l/n 02nov12 as such; replaced by EW-85581 and moved back to the airfield; l/n MSQ 03jul15, stored

[ehusmann]

That concludes it then, it was replaced. Thanks guys!

Erwin