already been sitting at VARZ-400 for a year. Here involved in some movie work, her last piece of action before being scrapped the following year

Apologies for the poor quality but this is a relatively rare picture of this plane carrying its Soviet rather than Russian reg. It was built in July 1992, registered CCCP-86123 the following month and parked up at SVO. The plane became RA-86123 in March 1993 and flew with Transaero until July 2000, when it joined KrasAir. The plane was also leased to VASO Airlines and ended its life with Atlant-Soyuz and was last noted operational at Dubai (DXB) in March 2008. It was then stored, minus engines, at the Vnukovo (VKO) VARZ-400 Aircraft Repair Plant, where it was scrapped around February 2011.