Old Malev hardware on display in Budapest

[upnorth]

Hello all,

Last week my girlfriend and I were in Hungary. While she was on business, I went about the business of visiting the Aeropark museum at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport. The Aeropark collection consists of a dozen or so aircraft spanning the history of Malev, Hungary's national airline, which went out of business in 2012.

On the day I visited, a guide with quite servicable English was on hand and opened up most of the aircraft for cockpit tours. I very much enjoyed the visit and heartilly recommend it if you're passing through Budapest.

Here's a sampling of the collection:

One of two Antonov An-2 aircraft in the collection


A very well kept Ilyushin Il-14



A pair of Ilyushin Il-18s



A Lisunov Li-2



Yakovlev Yak-40



Tupolev Tu-134



Tupolev Tu-154

[andygolfer]

what a super collection of aircraft and photographs - thanks for posting them.

business or aircraft museum? - I think you got the far better part of the deal

andy

[talldan76]

Some good shots there...

I flew in and out of there a few years back, but didn't have the time to spare for a visit - wish I had of!

Dan

[upnorth]

Thanks for the kind comments, it was definitely a very worthwhile place to visit.

I'd been meaning to visit Aeropark for a few years, so I'm glad I finally got out there this time. It was out third or fourth time in budapest.

[Ratrace]

Lovely stuff, thanks for posting.

[LondonEye]

Thanks for posting the pictures. I was lucky enough to go there back in 2004. A lot of work done on them since then, not all were painted up then.
For the record back then -
An-2 HA-MHI, IL-18 HA-MOA, Lisunov Li-2 HA-LIQ, Tu134 HA-LBE, Tu154 HA-LCG, Yak 40 HA-YLR. The IL-14 was still in rough colours as 04 (red) Russian AF. There was also a Mil Mi-2 HA-BCB.
Well worth a visit for anyone passing through.
Pete