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    Airframe Family: Tupolev Tu-134 Crusty (NATO)
    Latest Model:Tu-134AK
    Last Military Serial:LZ D 050 BBC
    Construction Number:1351303
    Last Civil Registration:LZ-TUP
    Compressed ID:Tupolev Tu-134AK sn LZ D 050 BBC cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hemus Air

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    Dates

    Event

    1971

    Constructed as a Tu-134AK.

    1971

    To Balkan Bulgarian Airlines with new c/r LZ-TUP.

    December 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Bulgarian Air Force with s/n 050.

    By 1980

    To Balkan Bulgarian Airlines with new c/r LZ-TUP.

    July 1995

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Bulgarian Air Force with s/n LZ D 050.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Tu-134A Crusty of the Bulgarian Air Forces 16th Transport Air Base on display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Another view of the Bulgarian Air Force Tu-134A Crusty on display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    23 July 1995


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: At Fairford RIAT Tattoo

    September 1997

    To Hemus Air with new c/r LZ-TUP.
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