An Interesting Museum

[Pielstick]

I've just got home from visiting my girlfriend in Belgrade. While I was there we went to the Yugoslav Air Museum at Belgrade Airport. It was a very interesting place with some great exhibits. Here's some pics we took, the quality isn't great... It was late in the day and I'm not the greatest photographer in the world

The outside of the Museum:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0542.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0538.jpg

Some stuff you would expect to see in a former Eastern Bloc country:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0511.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0508.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0556.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0549.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0548.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0539.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0527.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0522.jpg

Something home grown:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0521.jpg

Some familiar types in not so familiar markings:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0474.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0557.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0537.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0536.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0530.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0528.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0526.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0480.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0552.jpg

I was surprised by the number of German aircraft there...
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0546.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0532.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0531.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0478.jpg

And now for the main event, this is what I went to the musem to see...

The wreckage of a USAF F-16C from Aviano shot down in 1999:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0484.jpg

More wreckage, including part of the missile that shot it down:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0494.jpg

Wreckage from the USAF F-117A shot down in 1999:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0486.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0488.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0492.jpg

Various NATO UAVs and munitions recovered during 1999, including a shot down Predator, the remnants of a Tomahawk cruise missle, AGM-88 HARM and AGM-154 JSOW:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0500.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0499.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0498.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0497.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0495.jpg

And finally, can someone please identify this aircraft:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/ ... CN0551.jpg

It had no identification or info, and the museum had just closed so I couldn't ask. At a guess I would say it's a Convair type, but it may be a Soviet type that I am not familiar with.

Cheers!

[Harry Basset]

Is it an Ilyushin? either an Il-12 or Il-14 if my memory of old Observers Book of Aircraft is correct.

[Garry Russell]

Looks like an IL-14

Garry

[airboatr]

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[nigelb]

Thanks for posting - very interesting since it is something I probably will never see for myself.
Oh btw, good looking girlfriend there, mate! ;-)

[nazca_steve]

What a fascinating museum, interesting exhibits, including the munitions. And the F-16, well, not something you see everyday indeed. Nice pics, thanks for posting.

[airboatr]

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[DispatchDragon]

Joe

The legend goes he had a weapon system door failure in the open position - would make the 117 look like any other aircraft

Nice museum and excellent photos - a Trop hurriane - now there is a rareity - supposedly they had a Sealand there for many years too

Leif

[Hot_Charlie]

Trop Spit too...

[airboatr]

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