Tupolev Tu-154 travels to new home by road

[upnorth]

Hello all,

I'm a bit later than I intended in getting these pictures up. I took them at Kunovice, Czech Republic last Sunday (25.9.2016) when a new exhibit for the museum there arrived.

A former Czech air force Tupolev Tu-154M was, after two years of work and a very successful internet crowdfunding campaign, moved by road from Prague's Kbely airfield to Kunovice. This particular aircraft has the nickname "Nagano Express" as it was used to fly the gold medal winning Czech ice hockey team home from the 1998 Wintoer Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

The whole project was called Velký Přelet or The Great Flight. Enough money was raised through crowdfunding that the museum could not only move the aircraft, but also buy fresh fasteners to reassemble it and give it a fresh coat of paint among other things.

At that, here's some pictures from the day:

















If you wish to know more about the Velký Přelet project or the Kunovice air museum and their activities, please click on the link to my "Pickled Wings" aviation blog in my signature line below.

[paddyboy]

That must have been some job

Thanks

Paddyboy

[LM47]

That's a great record of an epic move.
Seeing that on the move must have been quite a sight
Richard

[upnorth]

Thanks for the replies.

If you're at all into Facebook, the museum hasa page there with more pictures of the move and the dismantlement of the aircraft at Prague:

https://www.facebook.com/zachranteLMK/