Photo: Palle Nørby Christensen

Mil Mi-26TZ Halo (92 YELLOW) of the Sil Vozdushnoy Oborony Respubliki Kazakhstan based at 612th AB Taraz departing the KADEZ 2012.

Del 25 Aug 1992 Test Registration as RA-06089 Former Rostvertol as RA-06089 Preserved at Museo Militar de Aviación MUMA

This TyumenAviaTrans Mil Mi-26T was seen near Zagreb's Pleso Airport while on contract to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) which was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in former Yugoslavia, formed in Feb. 1992. Skylink of Canada hired civil contract aircrews to support UN units in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia and serve Sarajevo. The Mi-26 was use to airlift supplies to remote bases and large metal shipping containers installed by the UN as observation posts along the new borders. The high time crew previously flew in Siberian oil fields. Later to UTAir.

First visit to Malta by a Mil Mi-26.

Seen during local WWII victory celebrations.

leased for fire fighting

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.