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    Airframe Family: Mil Mi-8 / Mi-9 Hip (NATO)
    Latest Model:Mi-8T Hip-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:395 NVA
    Construction Number:0423
    Compressed ID:Mil Mi-8T sn 395 NVA cn 0423
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftfahrthistorische Sammlung Finow, Finow AB, Eberswalde, Brandenburg

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    Dates

    Event

    July 1968

    Constructed as a Mi-8T.

    September 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Nationalen Volksarmee (National Peoples Army) with s/n 395.

    From 19 September 1968 to 1972

    Transferred to Hubschraubergeschwader 31 (31st Helicopter Squadron), Brandenburg-Briest, GDR.
    In march 1971 unit renamed as Hubschraubergeschwader 34.

    September 1972

    Crashed.
    Damaged beyond repair during an auto-rotation landing near Garz when both engines failed in-flight due to icing.

    From 1973 to May 1974

    Transferred to Flugzeugreparaturwerft 24 (24th Aircraft Repair Works), Kamenz, GDR.
    Repaired as ground instructional airframe.

    From 16 May 1974 to January 1980

    Transferred to Offiziershochschule der Luftstreitkrafte/Luftverteidigung (Air Force/Air Defence Officer College), Kamenz, GDR.

    From 1980 to 1990

    Transferred to Unteroffiziersschule VIII (NCO school VIII), Bad Duben, GDR.
    In Sept 1984 renamed as MTS der LSK/LV (Air Force/Air Defence Military Technical School).

    17 June 1993

    Transported by air.
    Flown underslung by a CH-53G Sea Stallion of German Army Aviation from Bad Duben to Finowfurt.

    17 June 1993

    Placed on display with Luftfahrthistorische Sammlung Finow, Finow AB, Eberswalde, Brandenburg.
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    16 September 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2012 photo at Luftfahrtmuseum-Finowfurt, Germany

    26 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Finow, Brandenburg, Germany

    12 September 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Finowfurt Aviation Museum at the Eberswalde-Finow Airport, Germany.

    12 September 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Finowfurt Aviation Museum at the Eberswalde-Finow Airport, Germany.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Helicopter Database
    Old Wings by Aad van der Voet
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
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