Civilian Aviation

EW-450TR IL62 Rada Airlines by Gerry Allen, on Flickr
EW-450TR IL62 Rada Airlines, FL350 abeam Egham, Surrey

Nice catch Gerry, I haven't seen one of those for years!

Hi Mike,

My last recorded 1L62 was - RA86572 Russian Air Force at Heathrow 09/07/12

gallent wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:50 pm

Hi Mike,

My last recorded 1L62 was - RA86572 Russian Air Force at Heathrow 09/07/12

Mine was a long time before that !

An absolute thing of beauty! There can't be that many 62s still knocking about.

I saw this one last April in the dark on it's way to Doncaster as it went over my house flashing (YungLee posted a pic of it departing next day -lucky so-and so
The last time I photographed one was in August 2012 when some Russian ones visited Stansted for the 2012 Olympics - there were actually 3 different ones plus 3 IL-96s
over a 4 day spell - so on that occasion I suppose I was luckier than Lee

here's 2 of them at Stansted on 2nd August as the VIPs departed

RA-86561 IL-62M Russian State Transport Company Stansted 02-08-2012 1677 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

RA-86561 IL-62M Russian State Transport Company Stansted 02-08-2012 1737 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

RA-86466 IL-62M Russian State Transport Company Stansted 02-08-2012 1863 t-off by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

RA-86466 IL-62M Russian State Transport Company Stansted 02-08-2012 1871 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

Sweet jesus Andy those are incredible. The year before I got back in to the hobby after a post-Concorde/being at Uni disillusionment!

Wish we'd had your weather over here in South Wales Gallent, it probably routed straight from you, via me, to Shannon. In fact I'm surprised I didn't hear a rumble. These beasts don't tend to show on flightradar so much.