ex Hemus Air and later returned to Hemus Air

Photographer: Not known. K64 slide scan. Delivered 1977, transferred to CSA Czech Airlines 1993. Flew last CSA Tu-134 service 9 December 1997. Hemus Air LZ-TUJ 1998, leased to Albanian Airlines, returned 2003. Retired and ferried to Almaty 18 September 2005, fate unknown. In 1990 CSA adopted a completely new colour scheme which was changed less than a year later, rumoured to be due to the fact that the tail logo looked similar to a Soviet flag from a distance.

Photographer: Not known. K64 slide scan. Delivered 1977, transferred to CSA Czech Airlines 1993. Flew last CSA Tu-134 service 9 December 1997. Hemus Air LZ-TUJ 1998, leased to Albanian Airlines, returned 2003. Retired and ferried to Almaty 18 September 2005, fate unknown. A first change in the 1992 livery added titles superimposed over a low blue cheatline.

Delivered to CSA as OK-HFL in 1977. To Hemus Air as LZ-TUJ in 1997. Flown to Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2005 and not noted again.

Final livery

This 134 was originally delivered to CSA in July 1977, becoming part of CSA - Czech Airlines in January 1993 and is pictured taxying out to rw18 for departure back to Prague (PRG). The plane flew the last ever Tu-134 flight for the airline from Belgrade (BEG) to PRG on 7th December 1997, after which it was delivered to Hemus Air as LZ-TUJ in mid-1998. The plane also had a lengthy six-year lease period with Albanian Airlines, returning to Hemus in May 2004. In September 2005 it was sold to a buyer in Kazakhstan, ferried to Almaty (ALA) and scrapped for spares in 2006.

line no. 41-05 | built in 1977

A view across onto the peak time extension stands at T2 as this 134 gets readied for the return flight to Prague. Note the Pan Am 737 about to line up on rw27L with a BA Tristar and Austrian DC-9-51 to follow.

A rather nostalgic view from the old Heathrow Queens Building terrace.

One of the many colour scheme variations worn by this aircraft over its Czech service from 1977. Made CSA's last Tu-134 flight in 12.97 and sold to Hemus in 6.98 as LZ-TUJ; wfu by 2006