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The Central Air Force Museum located in Monino, about 40km east of Moscow centre. The museum preserves the history of the creation and development of military aviation in Russia. It is one of the world’s largest aviation museums with the richest collection of aviation equipment is located in the open parking lot and in the halls – hangars. There are 190 airplanes, helicopters, gliders, including unique exhibits of the 1909 release, aircraft of the First World War, the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, combat vehicles of the post-war period, samples of modern military and civil aviation equipment developed in the Experimental Design Bureaus (OKB) of Tupolev, Yakovlev, Sukhoi, Ilyushin, Antonov, Mil and others. Many of the extremely rare samples could be found in here. Such as the Sukhoi T-4, Mil V12 Heavy Transport Helicopter, Tu-144 Supersonic jetliner and the Myasishchev M-50 strategic bomber.
Here, we bring you on a visual tour of some of the exhibits in the outdoor area and the Great Patriotic War hangers.
01 Mil V12 Heavy Transport Helicopter.
02 Tupolev Tu-4. Developed on the US B-29 bomber. The first Soviet nuclear weapon carrier.
03 Tupolev Tu-22. The first Soviet supersonic long-range sweep-wing jet bomber.
04 Ilyushin IL-28. First Soviet jet bomber.
05 Tupolev Tu-22M. The first Soviet supersonic long-range sweep-wing jet bomber.
06 Tupolev Tu-16K. The first Soviet sweep-wing jet missle carrier bomber.
07 Tupolev Tu-16K. The first Soviet sweep-wing jet missle carrier bomber.
08 Tupolev Tu-128 Long Range Interceptor
09 Sukhoi T-4. Strike and reconnaissance aircraft made from unique titanium and steel structure. Only 4 were built.
10 Sukhoi T-4. Strike and reconnaissance aircraft made from unique titanium and steel structure. Only 4 were built.
11 Myasishchev M-50. Supersonic strategic missile carrier bomber. Only 1 was built.
12 Sukhoi Su-24 Tactical bomber
13 Prototype of the Su-27 T-10-1 fighter
14 Sukhoi T6-1 Experimental aircraft
15 Sukhoi Su-25 and Tupolev Tu-144
16 Ilyushin IL-62
17 Mikoyan MiG-29, Tupolev Tu-114 and Ilyushin Il-76
18 Tupolev Tu-114
19 Ilyushin IL-76
20 Antonov An-12 and An-24
21 Antonov An-22
22 Mikoyan MiG-29 and Tupolev Tu-95
23 Myasishchev M-17 high-altitude subsonic jet aircraft used to intercept drifting balloons
24 Mikoyan MiG-29
25 Ilyushin IL-76
26 Mikoyan MiG-29
27 Tail of the Tupolev Tu-144 (CCCP-77106)
28 Tail of the Tupolev Tu-22M
29 Mikoyan MiG-27 fighter bomber.
30 Mikoyan MiG-105. Experimental piloted orbital aircraft.
31 Tupolev Tu-141 Reconnaissance drone
32 Mikoyan MiG-25RB Recon Aircraft
33 Family of Mikoyan MiGs. MiG-23, MiG-21, MiG-19, MiG-15, MiG-15UTI
34 Beriev Be-12
35 Lavochkin La-250 Supersonic interceptor. Only 5 were built.
36 Yakovlev Yak-141
37 Mil Mi-6AYA. Airbourne Command Post.
38 A pair of Yakolev Yak-38 carrier bourne strike fighters
39 Yakovlev Yak-36
40 Yakolev Yak-28 bomber
41 Yakovlev Yak-27R High-speed reconnaissance aircraft
42 Tail of the Sukhoi T-4 and its 4 exhausts
43 Mil Mi-8, Mi-10 and Mi-8T transport helicopters
44 Yakovlev Yak-24 transport helicopter
45 North-2 Snowmobile. It is a Pobeda car powered with an AI-14 aviation engine and equipped with skis.
46 Tupolev Tu-16
47 R-8 Air-to-Air missle mounted on a Sukhoi Su-15
48 Sukhoi Su-17M3 with Kh-25 missile and rocket pods.
49 Tuploev Tu-144
50 Mikoyan MiG-27
51 R-23 missile mounted on a Mikoyan MiG-23
52 Mikoyan MiG-21
53 Mikoyan MiG-19
54 Mikoyan MiG-29 lay without undercarriage in front of a shed
55 Tail of a Mikoyan MiG-31 and the tail of a Beriev Be-12 behind.
56 B-25 Mitchell
57 Iconic propellers of the Tupolev Tu-95
58 Myasishchev 3MD
59 Myasishchev 3MD
60 Museum staff rests behind a Mil Mi-24
61 Mil Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter
62 Petlyakov Pe-2 Dive Bomber
63 Bell P-63 Kingcobra
64 Petlyakov Pe-2 Dive Bomber
65 Tupolev SB ANT-40 High Speed Bomber
66 Ilyushin DB-3 Long Range Bomber
67 Great Patriotic War hanger of the Central Air Force Museum
68 Polikarpov Po-2
69 Ilyushin IL-10M
70 Ilyushin IL-2
71 Mil V12 Heavy Transport Helicopter.
Map of the outdoor exhibit area screencap taken from Yandex.
