photo taken at Berlin Schönefeld - SXF

basic Interflug c/s, Ber Line titles.

Photo by Michael Tosta.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1989 as C-FICO to Inter Canadian. TAT F-GIOX 1991, Berline 1992, Deutsche BA 1994, TAT 1994, Air UK G-UKFK 1996, renamed KLM UK 1998, KLM Cityhopper PH-OFK 2003. Withdrawn Woendsdrecht 2009, scrapped 2010.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1989 as C-FICB to Inter Canadian. TAT F-GIOV 1991. Berline 1992, Deutsche BA 1994, TAT 1994 , Air UK G-UKFJ 1996, renamed KLM UK 1998, KLM Cityhopper PH-OFJ 2003, withdrawn 2009 and scrapped at Amsterdam the following year.

K25 slide scan. Built 1965 as Il-18V DM-STI for East German Air Force in Interflug colours. Transferred to Interflug 1974, modernized to Il-18D late 1970's, reregistered DDR-STI 1981 and D-AOAP 1990. Berline D-AOAP 1991, converted to Il-18GrM Freighter, ceased operations 1994. German European 1994, not operated. Viola Avia Trans RA-75554 (2) 1995. Ramaer 1997, damaged beyond repair Johannesburg 17 December 1997 overrunning runway in aborted overweight take off.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1989 as C-FICO to Inter Canadian. TAT F-GIOX 1991. Berline 1992, Deutsche BA 1994, TAT 1994 , Air UK G-UKFK 1996, renamed KLM UK 1998, KLM Cityhopper PH-OFK 2003, withdrawn 2009 at Woendsdrecht and scrapped the following year. Having been formed out of Interflug's Il-18 fleet in 1991, Berline tried to modernize its fleet with two leased Fokker 100's. Its credit line was cut off in 1994 and the airline ceased operations. A planned restart as German European Airlines failed, altough two Il-18's were painted up as such.

A few years before being sold to the Ukraine, this aircraft was used as a calibrator, operated by INTERFLUG as DDR-STP in all grey colours. Thereafter, BerLine operated it as D-AOAQ during 1992.

BerLine acquired five Il-18s from Interflug and operated them between 1991 and 1994, when the airline had to cease all operations. D-AOAQ was sold as UR-75475, and was last reported as D2-FAM in Angola in 2010.

This Il-18 was originally delivered to the Soviet Government as CCCP-75553 in July 1964. It became DM-STF with Interflug in March 1967, DDR-STF in August 1981 and D-AOAO on German reunification in September 1990. It flew with BerLine from November 1991 until the airline ceased operations in March 1994. It then went to German European, Viola Avia Trans (as RA-75553), European Airlines (LZ-AZO, EL-ADY & T9-ABB) and Phoenix (T9-ABB & EX-405) before joining Anikay Air as EX-405 around March 2005. It is now reported as stored at Biskek (FRU).

Photo not centered so as to take in the smoke effect!

Portrayed on its firsts days of operation with Berline, this one was sub-leased from TAT for about half a year

Berline was founded by former Interflug employees and initially operated ex-IF Il-18s on chartered cargo and holiday flights from its base at SXF. Two Fokker 100s were later leased in from TAT but the airline ceased trading at the end of March 1994. This F.100 went on to fly with Air UK as G-OKFJ and KLM UK and KLM Cityhopper as PH-OFJ before being scrapped at Schiphol in June 2010.