This Aircraft was used in 1977 for Malev experimental flights on ICAO CAT.II operations: the program ended up succesfuly on March 20 1978 to clear the way for the Tu-145B-2 version for wich this aircraft was registered in in 1980. Its last flight was CFU-BUD on the 13th of October 1994 totalling 23173 hours and 14759 cicles. Used since then for spares and broken up in 1997.