THE SIGHT & THE SOUND 1/3 : Flight onboard Grixona IL-18 ER-ICB from Chisinau (KIV) to Balti (BZY)

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This video has been remastered and substantially improved in vision and sound and replaced the initial posting in 2017.

During an aviation charter of this beautiful Ilyushin 18 by AirEvents Limited initiated by the author of this video on April 4, 2009, a group of aviation geeks flew from Chișinău - Moldova - to Bălți in the North of the country and back with a ramp tour to follow in Chișinău.

This video documentary takes us onboard the first of three flights onboard IL-18 on our way from Chișinău to Bălți. The plane was parked in Bălți on the middle of the runway and everybody picknicked right there... beneath the plane, avgeek's heaven !

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History of Ilyushin 18D ER-ICB

Airframe 188010603 was manufactured March 6, 1968 at the Moscow Engineering Plant 30 “Znamya Truda / Banner of Labour” as a Troopship Military Transporter Prototype version of IL-18TD.

Airframe 188010603 was registered CCCP-74296, after being converted to Passenger / Cargo configuration on August 30, 1968.

After being registered in Russia, RA-74296 operated for the Zhukovsky Flight Institute AIS Skytriumph in Aeroflot livery after August 28, 1993.

RA-74296 was transferred to Tretyakovo Airlines on April 23, 1999.

Registration RA-74296 was cancelled after years of inactivity on July 21, 2003 and sold to Moldova to operate for Pecotox Air, registered ER-ICB.

ER-ICB operated as far as to Australia and was seen in Brisbane, April 3, 2004.

ER-ICB was sold to Grixona on February 18, 2005 and operated on numerous missions to South Sudan and other war-torn countries throughout Africa and Asia.

Grixona and a number of other Moldovan operators were revoked the Air Operator Certificate by the
Moldovan Civil Aviation Authorities due to failure to comply with EASA regulations.

In order to operate pleasure flights for an international enthusiast audience, initiated and organized
by the author of this video series, ER-ICB operated passenger flights under the Air Operator
Certificate of Tandem Aero on April 4, 2009 and September 18, 2010.

After losing her license to carry passengers, ER-ICB was sold back to Russia on December 21,
2011 to operate throughout Siberia and the Far East in Cargo configuration for NPP Mira, registered
74296.

74296 is reported stored since September 5, 2016 and eventually broken up in February, 2019 at a
respectable age of 51 years.

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Flight details

Flight : TDM 1410
Date : Saturday, April 4, 2009
Aircraft : IL-18D
Registration : ER-ICB
Former Registrations :
- CCCP-74296 (Aeroflot)
- RA-74296 (Tretyakovo Airlines)
- ER-ICB (Pecotox Air, Moldova)
Later registration
- 74296 (NPP Mira)
Built : 1968
From : Chișinău (KIV)
To : Bălți (BZY)
Take off : 10.11 h (0711 UTC)
Touch down : 10.33 h (0733 UTC)
Flying time : 22 minutes
Flying distance : 122 km
Altitude : 6.000 ft
Speed : 370 km/h
Flight Captain : Rusu, Vladimir
Flight Captain : Ianovich, Sergey
Flight Engineer : Sapojkov, Sergey
Navigator : Dolgochev, Sergey
Cabin Crew : Ostapenko, Raisa
Cabin Crew : Valentina

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