This Halo was built in 1986 and delivered to the Soviet AF as 59 yellow. In June 1992 it was transferred to the Belorussian AF as 54 white. In January 2011 it was offered for sale without success and so was painted into fake Russian markings as "27 white", and used for the film 'A Good Day to Die Hard'. The helicopter (tragically) was burnt out in the process and so the remains were scrapped with only the nose section surviving to be placed on display at this museum south of Budapest.

Wearing United Nations markings, with the full reg. numbers on the tail and the code UN-94 behind the cockpit.

Relief effort in the wake of the devastating 8 October 2005 earthquake in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. Rostvertol in Rostov-on-Don is the manufacturer of the Mi-26. Photo by: Jessica Barry / International Committee of the Red Cross

Manufactured in Apr'89 and was delivered to MAP MVZ im. Milya. The Mi-26T visited Schiphol-Oost without company titles. The helicopter flew some off shore trail missions together with Dutch Navy Lynx's. It was transferred to TyumenAviaTrans as RA-06121 in '93 and to UTair in Jul'03. Ten years later is was leased to the United Nations as UN-156 and returned to UTair in '05, still RA-06121. As such, the Mi-26T crashed near Tailakovo, Central South Russia during underslung operations on 6 Dec'11. Its tailboom broke off due to fatigue cracks. The Mi-26 crashed from 60m, killing one of six crew.

Originally built for the Iraqi Army in 1990, but not delivered. Became CCCP-29112 with MAP Rosverto and served the UN as UN-950 from Sep 1992. In Nov 1995 transferred to Rostvertol as RA-29112. Damaged while on a positioning flight to Somalia when a part of a main rotor blade came off in-flight(!) near Trabzon, Turkey on 31 Dec 1993. Repaired and entered the Vertical-T fleet in Jan 2006. Seen here with cyrillic "Вертикаль-T" (=Vertical-T) titles on the nose. Sadly this Mi-26 crashed on 2 Dec 2006 near Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan, Afghanistan.

Aeroflot and Rostvertol titles.

A huge helicopter as shown by the people around it

3 of these massive helicopters were present in the yard of ABN Transport RA-06021 RA-06032 RA-06041

This HUGE Mi-26 was once delivered as CCCP-06181 to MAP MVZ im. Milya in 1990 and was originally built for the Iraqi Army. After use in Sweden as RA-06181 with Mi-Avia from Borås in basic Aeroflot colors and additional 'Osterman Sweden' and 'Vattenfall' titles, during the mid-ninetees, the helicopter was transferred to TyumenAviaTrans in 2000 and to UTair in 2003. From mid-2003, UTAir leased the Mi-26 to the United Nations for operations over Africa. Mid-2019, it was seen stored at Tyumen-Plekhanovo in Russia, awaiting overhaul.

Crashed and w/o 02/12/2006 in Afghanistan near Tarin Kowt. All 8 crew members killed.

A giant on the northern platform of Kandahar. It's incredible that these huge and slow moving helicopters could survive in a high threat environment of Afghanistan. There were fighter jets are manoeuvring at low level to the max to prevent being shot by Taliban, these Mi-26s are just a sitting duck and just fly...