An Aeroflot Airbus A319, VP-BUK, is arriving at Stockholm Arlanda airport after a flight from Moscow Sheremetyevo.

This is not the first time we’re carrying a picture of this Tupolev 154, with registration CCCP-85005, from Moscow’s All-Russia Exhibition Center (VDNKh), but I figured it was worth another shot.

Here’s a Tupolev-154 from Aeroflot, registered RA-85640, that I managed to capture on a slide many years ago when it was parked on the tarmac of Helsinki Vantaa airport. Little did I realize at the time that I would fly this same airplane almost a decade later on a domestic Russian flight.

Here’s a Yakovlev-42, CCCP-42304, from Aeroflot on display at the All-Russia Exhibition Center (popularly called the VDNKh). In the background is a Tupolev T154, CCCP-85005, and a copy of the Vostok I that Yuri Gagarin rode into Earth orbit in April 1961.

Another Aeroflot! This Airbus A320, VP-BRY, is parked at Oslo Gardermoen’s gate 50 at the end of the international concourse.

This is an Aeroflot Airbus A319, with registration VP-BWJ, taking off from Stockholm Arlanda airport’s runway 19R on flight SU220 to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.

More than 1000 airplanes have been built of this type, a Tupolev-154. In its heyday it used to be the workhorse of the air fleets of the Soviet Union. This particular airplane, CCCP-85005, is on display in the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow (popularly named by its former Russian name, VDNKh). This Tu-154 was used [...]

This is the economy class cabin of an Aeroflot Ilyushin-96-300, RA-96005, on its way from Moscow to Khabarovsk. Due to the lack of overhead baggage bins in the middle, it’s a very spacious cabin. But the overhead lockers on the sides are tiny and cannot hold much baggage, so most bags must necessarily go under [...]