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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Antonov An-24 Coke (NATO) / An-26 Curl (NATO) / An-30 Clank (NATO) / An-32 Cline (NATO) / An-34 / An-40 / An-50 / Xian Y-7
    Latest Model:An-26SM
    Last Military Serial:52+09 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:11402
    Last Civil Registration:DDR-SBL
    Compressed ID:Antonov An-26SM sn 52+09 Luftwaffe...
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    1981

    Constructed as an An-26.

    September 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Nationalen Volksarmee (National Peoples Army) with s/n 369.

    Converted to an An-26SM.
    Modified to carry out measurement flights on instrument landing systems, navigation systems and secondary radar systems. Unofficially called An-26SM.

    26 September 1988

    Civil registration DDR-SBL reserved but not taken up.

    3 October 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 52+09.

    20 June 1994

    Placed on display with Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    8 May 2002


    Photographer: John Bennett

    25 May 2012


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
    Notes: On display at the Luftwaffenmuseum. Formerly carrying the code 369 in the NVAs Transportfliegerstaffel 24 (TS-24) based at Dresden-Klotsche.

    16 September 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: At the Berlin Gatow Museum in Germany
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Old Wings by Aad van der Voet
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
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