Elf Air Remembered

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Elf Air

Photos © R.Leeuw

Ceased operations: 2003, renamed
Homebase: Moscow-Zhukovsky
Founded: 1991
ICAO callsign: Elfair
Flightnbr prefix: EFR
Operations: passengers and cargo

Ilyushin Il-18V RA-75811 (c/n 182004504) is seen here on a late afternoon arrival at Sharjah, on 26Apr2000. It is a "combi" aircraft, carrying both passengers and cargo on the maindeck.

Elf Air was renamed Grizobudovoy Aviation Company, who was a famous & highly decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, a female pilot in WW2.
Elf Air is a subsidiary of the Zhukovsky Research Institute, which by now seems to have been renamed into LIIPim. Grizubudovoy (Flight Research Institute named after Grizubudovoy).
The marketing department must have been real pleased with this name change !

The fleetlist in 2001:

Type	Registration	C/n	Configuration
Yakovlev 40K	RA-87219	9932059	Executive/Combi
Yakovlev 40	RA-88238	9640951	Y32
Yakovlev 40	RA-88239	9641051	Executive
Antonov 26	RA-13398	2607	Combi
Antonov 12BP	RA-13321	2340301	Freighter
Ilyushin 18D	RA-75431	186009405	Combi, lst Primair
Ilyushin 18V	RA-75811	182004504	Combi, lst Primair
Ilyushin 18V	RA-75834	182005104	Combi
Ilyushin 18V	RA-75851	182005501	Combi, lsf LDF
Ilyushin 76T	RA-76756	0013428839	Freighter
Ilyushin 76TD	RA-76823	0023441189	Freighter

Sources:
Scramble (June 2003) magazine
Fleet info: JP Airline Fleets 2001

More Il-18s at Sharjah: in April 2000

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