Delivered to Aeroflot as CCCP-85578 in 1983. To Uzbekistan Airways as 85578 by 1993. Reregistered as UK-85578 by 1994. Withdrawn from use at Tashkent as 85578 by 2013. Still there in 2015. Probably scrapped.

Boarding process on the ramp at Urgench in central Uzbekistan near the Turkmenistan border. I had been trying to get a Il-114 flight, but this was the best I could get. Using the picture of a cabin layout I tried to explain the checkin employee I needed not just a window seat, but a righthand side window seat. This to make sure I got to see the parked Uzbek fleet on arrival in Tashkent. This foto with a low sun shows the how the Uzbeks came up with their flag, and the colourscheme on their fleet of aircraft. The Green fields below and the blue sky above.