Built as a Be-30 in 1970, converted by MAP TMZ to Be-32 in 1971 and stored for 17 years at the factory airfield at Taganrog before being overhauled and modernised with TVD-10B turboprops. Displayed at the 1993 Paris airshow, hence number '308' still on tail here. Moscow Airways ordered 50 but ceased operations before any were built. In 1995 it was further modified to Be-32K with PT6A engines to increase western appeal. After not being taken up by Yakutia, since 2021 preserved at Taganrog-Yuzhny in period Aeroflot colours with CCCP prefix only

The Be-30 was developed by Beriev as a competitor for the An-28 and Let 410, first flying in March 1967 with piston engines. Glushenkov turboprops were used from the production prototype onwards, but only three Be-30s and five of the Be-32s were built in the late 1960s before the program was terminated

third prototype of the Be-30. Photographer unknown

Moscow Airways ordered 50 of these aircraft, but went bust before the first aircraft could be delivered. Only six Be-32s were ever built.

The Be-32 was an uprated version of the Be-30, seating four more pax in the same cabin, which is just 1.5 m (59 in) wide.