| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | YL-LDB |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Antonov An-26 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Antonov An-26 |
| Aircraft Version: | Antonov An-26B |
| C/n (msn): | 10810 |
| Operator Titles: | Latavio - Latvian Airlines |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Riga - InternationalMap |
| Country: | Latvia |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: EVRA IATA: RIX Local: - Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 10 September 1993 |
| Photo by: | Richard Vandervord |
| Photo ID: | 838267 |
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Built in 1981, delivered to Aeroflot's Latvian division as CCCP-26047 and transferred to Latavio in October 1992. To Carol Air Services in November 1995 and dropped a load of weapons over West Bengal for a fundamentalist Hindu cult in December. Impounded at Mumbai a few days later. Seen in 2015 with fuselage cut in half. The remains were acquired by a local aviation engineering training institution This photo is copyright © Richard Vandervord, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 19 August 2025, and has since been viewed 32 times. |