The pair of Yugoslav An-12s were regular Heathrow visitors in the mid-Eighties on the weekly JAT freight run, later contracted out to, amongst others, Air Bridge using Electras. Note the Yugoslav AF serial also carried; this aircraft was manufactured in 1971 but tragically crashed into a road bridge on finals to Yerevan on 12.12.88 with 8,388 hrs and 4,727 cycles recorded, ironically in view of the aircraft's registration carrying aid for the victims of the earthquake

The aircraft carries the title www.asterias.com.ua A pleasant surprise after a long, long cold wait. It later became UR-CAG

RA-11356 just landed on 06, still showing the colours of previous operator SPAir. It had flown for this company from 1994 until it was registered to Yermolino Airlines in November 1996. It was last noted at Yermolino, Russia in 2005 and presumably broken up some time later.

The power of the outer AI-20 engines is sufficient to negotiate this gentle artificial slope in Schiphol's polder landscape.