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Mi-8T
SV-97 pres Sétif at Gate may18
The Mi-8 is preserved at the gate Sétif Ain-Arnat, at
36°11’15.20”N, 05°19’54.30”E, since January 2017. On the oth-
erside of the road is the Mi-2 ST-27 preserved.
Mi-24Mk3
SB-73 ex Mi-24V 3532421319212
SB-89 ex Mi-24V 3532422319852 may18
Mi-26T-2
SL-66 f/n DAOI, photo 34001212712 mar18
Mi-171
SM-33 6 RHM f/n DB, at DAOI (photo) mar18
SM-55 o’haul HE2S also noted as 633? apr18
The Mi-17Sh SM-55 was noted in April 2018 in an overall
light brown (sand) colour scheme at Lyubertsy airfield
near Moscow. The helicopter was noted, in the same colour
scheme in December 2015 in Russia also, however the SM-55
seen in 2018 is heavily modified. It is now equiped with
“President-S” infra-red countermeasure systems and EO/IR
for guided ATGMs. It also has no less than four FLIR-cameras,
one on each end of the weapon rack, one under its tailboom
and one on the starboard side under the cockpit. On the oth-
erside under the nose is a large searchlight. Somewhere in
2018 a helicopter, with the same colour scheme and the same
modifications, with serial 633 was noted, also at Lyubertsy.
We expect this is the same helicopter and 633 was nothing
more than a temporarily flighttest registration.
MiG-21MF
FD-35 pres. DAOE f/n DB, photo apr18
The MiG-21 is pole mounted at 35°43’48.90”N, 00°48’07.20”W,
It is at this location already since at least December 2003.
MiG-29SMT
FC-36 to Russia as 05/RF-92925 2960733345
This MiG-29s was delivered to Algeria in May 2007 but was
send back to Russia in April 2008, after the Algerian Air Force
found out that the ordered, assumed upgrade to the SMT/
UBT standard had not been carried out, the aircraft still had
equipment dated back to the early 1990s, when the aircraft
had been manufactured.
Su-30MKI(A)
KF-87 12 EDA f/n DB, photo mar18
Angola
Força Aérea Nacional de Angola (AF)
Mi-24D
H-333 c/n update 3532462501065
This Mi-24 was last noted on the dump of Luanda on April
1998. The underlined digit however needs confirmation, an
‘8’ is also possible.
SA316B
H-249 ex Swiss AF V-218 1329 sep17
This Alouette III was last noted at RUAG at Alpnach, Switzer-
land. Around March 2014 the H-249 was first noted in Angola.
Peter Weinert found a photo, made in September 2017,
showing its serial and construction number. It is possible
more former Swiss Air Force Alouettes ended up in Angola.
Benin
Force Armees Populaire du Benin (AF)
The presidential fleet has just been enriched by a new AW139
helicopter and is replacing the AW139 TY-ABC ( 41347 ) that
crashed on 26th of December 2015. The helicopter arrived by
vessel at the port of Cotonou in March 2018 and from there it
was transported by flatbed trailer to its new home at Cardi-
nal Bernardin Gantin international airport, better known as
Cotonou- Cadjèhoun.
Botswana
Botswana Defence Force - Air Wing (AF)
BF-5
... Z28 w/o 27apr18
Burkina Faso
Force Aérienne de Burkina Faso (AF)
UH-1H
BF1605 Esc. Helic. B29 ex Taiwan 357/63-2057
BF1606 Esc. Helic. B29 ex Taiwan 361/63-2061
Thanks to Ian Carroll we can confirm the tie-up of these
former Taiwanese Hueys.
Cameroon
Armée de l’Air du Cameroun (AF)
On May 11th the US Ambassador in Cameroon, Peter Henry
During his trip in the UK, Marcel J. van Bielder visited RAF Cranwell. Among his sightings was this RAF Phenom 100 ZM337, part of the 45(R)sq
based at this field. (Cranwell, 26 April 2018, Marcel J. van Bielder)
