Out of the paint shop but it was Not Taken Up by the airline! The aircraft eventually went to Mexicana in May 1993 as XA-SHI

Assigned PH-EZV but thought not to have been used, it was registered PH-TAC Aug-1990 and made its first flight 13-Sep-1990, planned to become B-11152 (Taiwan AL) in 1991 but this was cancelled, to F-OLGB (Palair Macedonian) registered Nov-1993, in Jul-1996 back to PH-TAC, to PT-MQA (TAM) registered Dec-1996, to F-WQUH Aug-2003, to EI-DFC (EUJet) May-2004, to F-GPXM (Air France / Regional) Mar-2006, to EP-ATC (Iran Aseman) registered Nov-2010

Pictured on its regular visit across from Skopje.

Leased for a year or so to Macedonia just after the country declared independence, this An-24 has remained under its Bulgarian registration since new in 1968, mainly with Balkan but last with Aviostart. Parted-out and derelict at Sofia, scrapped 2008

First seen with Balkan in 1971 and leased to Palair for around a year in late 1991. Later stored at Sofia all-white and returned to Russia in 1994 but fate unknown