Visit of an old friend

I don`t know how many hours I spent on bord these beauties (during my time as a volunteer flight-manager at Ostend), but one ting is for sure: These Antonov AN-12s are real "man-airplanes"! Since the EU baned european airlines from flying those, such planes became a rare sight in western Europe.
This one is operated by russian enterprise "Kosmos" and came with some 16 tons of cargo from Athens to Hannover. Katrin and I decided to spend some time at the second of April at the airport, watching it arrive and beeing unloaded.

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These two tired looking AN-2 are sitting at Lesce/Bled Airfiel in the northern Part of Slovenia. They do not seem to be active for some time. Quite scenic location.

Diese beiden AN-2 sehen eher inaktiv aus. Immerhin nicht komplett vergammelt wie viele ihrer Brüder und Schwestern in einigen anderen Ländern. Zu hause sind die beiden in Lesce/Bled im Norden von Slovenien