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We managed to track down all of our AN cosplay lineups over the years in the full post (minus 2014, where we only attended as Alois on Saturday). Looking back at these is a trip. 🥹

Antonov An-26B-100 Kostroma Aviation Enterprise

Registration: RA-26081 Named: Sharya Type: An-26B-100 Engines: 2 × AI-24VT Serial Number: 117-03 First flight: 1981

Kostroma Aviation Enterprise is a regional airline founded in 1944 and based at Sokerino Airport, located six kilometers from Kostroma. Over eight decades of operation, Kostroma aviators have experienced much: the golden era of Soviet regional aviation, when An-2s flew to every village with a dirt runway; the arrival of turboprop L-410s in the late 1970s, which expanded the geography of flights; then the difficult 1990s with reduced routes and an uncertain future. Nevertheless, the enterprise survived.

Today, the core of the small fleet consists of An-26 turboprop aircraft – reliable Soviet machines capable of operating in harsh conditions. The company operates regular passenger flights on the Kostroma–Saint Petersburg route three times a week. During the summer season, additional routes to Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan are opened. The fleet also includes Mi-2 and Ansat helicopters, used for medical aviation, search and rescue operations, and VIP transportation.

Kostroma Aviation Enterprise performs an important social function, maintaining air connections under conditions where it would be unprofitable for commercial carriers to operate. Despite challenges – high costs, competition from ground transportation, aging fleet – the company continues its work thanks to state support and the loyalty of the local population, providing connectivity between the Kostroma Region and cities across Russia.

Ρωσικό μεταγωγικό αεροσκάφος An-26 συνετρίβη κοντά στην πόλη Χαμπάροφσκ

Ρωσικό μεταγωγικό αεροσκάφος τύπου An-26 με εξαμελές πλήρωμα συνετρίβη κοντά στην πόλη Χαμπάροφσκ στην ρωσική Άπω Ανατολή. Το αεροσκάφος χάθηκε από τα ραντάρ του πύργου ελέγχου του αεροδρομίου του Χαμπάροφσκ όταν βρίσκονταν σε απόσταση 38 χιλιομέτρων από το αεροδρόμιο. Σύμφωνα με πηγή που επικαλείται το πρακτορείο TASS το πλήρωμα του αεροσκάφους δεν ανάφερε κάποια βλάβη και η πτήση εκτελούνταν…

Zelensky paid visit to wounded cadet – Everything happened as in computer game: Survived cadet tells about An-26 plane crash

Vyacheslav Zolochevsky wounded as a result of a crash of the An-26 military aircraft the night before near Chuhuiv

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky paid a visit to the cadet of the flight faculty of Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University of Kharkiv Vyacheslav Zolochevsky who was wounded as a result of a crash of the An-26 military aircraft the night…