Location: Exercise Co-Operative Bear, Krakow-Balice, Poland

Date: September, 1999

A two week detachment to Poland for Exercise Co-Op Bear 99. Lots of Eastern European transport aircraft to wet the appetite (Moldovan An2 and An72!!). No pictures of my flight in the An72, though!


  • PC-6 Turbo Porter 3G-EE from the Austrian Air Force.

  • Polish Antonov An-2 7445 at rest.

  • 7445

  • An-28TD 1003 from the Polish Air Force.

  • An-26RV 04 Yellow of the Lithuanian Air Force.

  • Bulgarian Air Force An-26 080.

  • Fokker 60UTA-N U-03 from the Netherlands Air Force.

  • Antonov An-72 ER-72932 of the Moldovan Air Force.

  • ER-72932

  • French Air Force Casa 235M 129/62-IL.

  • ER-72932

  • Polish Air Force Yak-40 038.

  • Il-76MD UR-76677 from the Ukrainian Air Force.

  • Latvian Air Force LET L-410UVP 145.

  • Possibly the rarest aircraft on show - an Estonian Air Force Antonov An-2 41.

  • Polish Air Force PZL W3 Sokol 0418.

  • An-24TV 1911 from Romania.

  • US Navy 'Catbird' VP-3A 150511.

  • 150511