Emergency is an Italian NGO, offering life support for civilian war victims (as indicated by the titles). The aircraft also carries very small blue "Operated by Aeroportul Internațional Mărculești" titles. This 1988 built An-72 was delivered to the Soviet AF as CCCP-72933, it was transferred as ER-72933 to Moldovan AF in 1994. The Vichi Air Company, an asset of the Moldavan AF, used the aircraft as ER-AFZ from 2000 to 2003. In Sep 2003 the air force took it back as 72933, but from Mar 2004 the An-72 was "civil" owned again with AIM. That company -still with links to the military- lost its AOC in 2007.

The Directorate of Civil Aviation of Libya visits the UN in Geneva.

second An-71 prototype but third An-71 airframe completed t/t 380 hours, 362 cycles until An-71 trials stopped in late 1990; l/n Kiev-Svyatoshino sep02/apr10 stored with engine covers marked 71-03 removed by road to the State Aviation Museum at Kiev 15th Oct 2010

Ex-CCCP-19774. Later CCCP-72001

Destroyed in a take off accident in 2017.

Chaetered by International Committee of the Red Cross. Later converted in VIP configuration for the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior as 01 Blue.

Sunset after thunderstorms, there really is no better light than that! MSI6533 brought football club FK Marioepol (Ukraine) to the Netherlands for their Europa League qualification match against AZ Alkmaar.

The cockpit of this VIP aircraft.

From what I have been able to glean, SAF was not an airline but a Lithuanian wireless data transmission equipment manufacturer. It was most likely being operated on their behalf by an airline. However, there are conflicting reports as to whom the aircraft was registered to at the time. It could have been any one of three: Shonkar Airlines, Bashkirian Airlines or East Line Airlines.

This An-72 was originally built in May 1989 as a 72S, the executive VIP transport version, and delivered to the Soviet AF/Aeroflot. It joined Eminex in September 1997 (as ES-NOG) and then worked for the UN before rejoining Eminex in February 2005. The plane is pictured here slowing down on rw06 and still wearing remnants of its UN markings. It would then depart for Angola and life with Servis Air and the Angolan AF. The plane is currently with the Angolan AF as T-707.

This An-72 was originally built in May 1989 as a 72S, the executive VIP transport version, and delivered to the Soviet AF/Aeroflot. It joined Eminex in September 1997 (as ES-NOG) and then worked for the UN before rejoining Eminex in February 2005. The plane is pictured here departing rw36L still wearing remnants of its UN markings. It would then depart for Angola and life with Servis Air and the Angolan AF. The plane is currently with the Angolan AF as T-707.

Looking at the window in the fuselage, fasten your seatbelt was not needed during landing of this untitled An-74.

The aircraft arrived more than a year ago for maintenance but nothing much has happened since.