Hi all,
Returning from another short trip to Croatia here are my notes for Zagreb area on 11./12. October, all notes based on very short stops with no time to invest
Pleso
11. Oct after 13:00 No activity, MiG.21 ‚garages‘ closed, hangar mostly closed. Of the 2 stored MiG.21bis (110, 122) noted on 25.09, only 110 was left. An.32B 707 and 727 present of course, but have been moved around the last 2 weeks. Present were also 2 US Army UH-60; one I read as (10-)20314.
12. Oct. around 13:00 No activity again, but one UH-60 had been towed towards the An.32Bs, with a bunch of people around, the other one flew a short local mission. Serial may have ended on 425 or 426 or 725 or so.
After some google search I assume that there was a small official event for the handover of the first 2 Blackhawks for the Croatian AF, in this case possibly both former 1-214 AVN examples.
Also I noted that the storage compound of Pleso is visible nowadays, I counted 6 Mi.24 or what is left of them, plus 1 MiG.21bis in the late camo, but possibly there is more in that corner.
Velika Gorica
11. Oct. around 14:00 Mi.17 229 KFOR marks outside with no rotors, 4 more inside the hangar, not identified (as I got some attention myself …). Before that, I read AT-802AF 893 or 895 being moved into the middle hangar, where Macedonian AT-802AF Z3-BGT plus another possibly Macedonian example were present. Also in that hangar was a MiG.21bis in an older style camo, no serial on the left side (looked like 102 which was photographed here mid 2017).
12. Oct. around 13:00 Hangars closed, Mi.17 229 still there, plus Mi.8T 274 (also noted 25.09.) either engine running or about to depart.
Lucko
11. Oct. around 15:00 Mi.8MTV-1 210, 211 and 254 were present.
Cheers
Martin
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