 Yaks to Germany (scheduled) (was: Air Berlin Feedback)
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:47:53 +0200, Ulf Kutzner
<kutzu000@mail.uni-mainz.de> wrote:
>nitram@ schrieb:
>
>> >> What was the name of the German internal airline that was part owned
>> >> by a brewery and flew three engined Russian Yaks from Munich to
>> >> Saarbrucken (edit in your own umlauts)?
>> >
>> >Russian Yaks in Germany in the 70ies? Maybe "Interflug" of East-Germany by
>> >any chance? Didn't know they flew in the West, though ;-)
>>
>> They apparently still do, they must be getting a bit ancient by now.
>> It seems to have been a West German airline - General Air. The plane
>> was a YAK 40 it sold well including to West Germany according to my
>> ancient copy of Jane's World Aircraft Recognition. It had 3 engines in
>> the tail a bit like a small Trident or a Boeing 727.
>
>Yaks to Germany? Well, Domodedovo airlines and maybe Enkor (at least) do
>operate Yak-42 into Germany.
>
>Regards, ULF
>
>-> rta
The Yak42 is much bigger than the Yak 40. An Italian airline also
operated the Yak40 for a while. I guess it was one of the first
regional jets, along with the bizarre VFW 614 with the over wing
engines.
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