This Il-62 was built in February 1992 and was first noted with Orient Avia in May 1995. The company filed for bankruocy in July 1997 and, after a period in storage, was sold to Kazan Aviation Production Association (KAPO). It became the third Il-62 converted to be a freighter (Il-62MGr). After flying for KAPO it joined Manas Airways (as EX-62001) in February 2016 and Rada Airlines (as EW-505TR) and was still active as late as August 2023.

Visiting the Sheremetyevo Research Institute in the middle of the nineties, what a tour that was! A dozen different types visible in the background and complimentary Tupolev just airborne in the far right. Orient Avia had the nicest livery I ever saw on an Il-62. [Kodachrome slide]