This Ka-26 was DDR-SPJ in its Interflug days. Now one of the three exhinits on display at this museum commemorating the work of this early German powered flight pioneer.

This is a composite Cmelak that also contains parts from DM/DDR-SQL (cn 09-08) and DM/DDR-SQM (cn 10-16) plus one wing of D-EOYX.

This Il-18 was built in September 1962 and deivered to the East German AF as '499' (with radio callsign DM-VAY). It transferred to Interflug in June 1964 as DM-STE and was later re-registered DDR-STE. The plane was retired on 1st November 1989 and on the 16th it made its 20, 504th landing on the 800 m long grass runway at Borkheide. In total the plane has covered some 16.5 million km and spent 34,627 h in the air. It is now on display at this museum commemorating the work of this early German powered flight pioneer.