Paris Air show Le Bourget 1989

The Le Bourget Air salon is probably the most exciting show to visit every other year to find and see the latest developments in aviation.

We, the people behind Zijde Aviation Photo Publishing (as this is our full name) started visiting the Le Bourget air show in 1985. That means that this year, Le Bourget 2001 will be our 9th  visit to this grand show that hosts all the great manufacturers of all that has anything to do with aviation, reason enough we thought to display some of the photo’s we took over the last 8 shows (15 years).

After 1985 and 1987 we were prepared for anything in Paris, we had sunshine, rain, wind and had learned that a well filled backpack (including lunch and rain-gear) was very important to carry around.

This year Paris promised to be a good show, The Buran from the Soviet Union would come on the back of a An-225 ! and also a lot of other Soviet aircraft. Thanks to Mr. Gorbatsov and his Perestroika finally the Soviets would bring out the best of their Industries along with a great arsenal of western Aircraft builders.

This is what we saw in 1987.

Prototype of Soviet Army. Mill Mi-28 "Havoc"

There were 3 Prototypes build, first flight was

November 10th 1982. Before this Paris Air show

no pictures were seen of the Havoc.

LB#. 032

Sukhoi Su-28 "Frogfoot".

The Su-28 is a civilian version of the Su-25UT and Su-28UB

it is used for Para-military flying schools

LB#. 302

Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker".

Flow spectacularly, Crashed even more spectacular.

LB#. 388    

"Buran".

The Soviet Space Shuttle, made one space-flight

without crew, it can now be seen in a Moscow park

The "Buran" carried by the An-225 "Mriya" (Dream) CCCP-82060.

The An-225 is currently the largest Aircraft in the world.

(wingspan: 88,40 M1 ! Length: 84 M1, Height: 32,65 M1)

It can fly with an incredible load of more then 453.600 Kg.

LB#. 387

Tupolev Tu-204 CCCP-64001.

The first prototype of the Tu-204 Soviets most modern

passenger jet-airliner.

LB#. 305

Mill Mi17-18A. CCCP-95043.

Owned by Aeroflot.

LB#. 298

Ilyushin 11-96-300 CCCP-96000.

Owned by Aeroflot.

LB#. 386

Dornier 228-202 D-CAFE.

Owned by Midway Connection.

LB#. 10

Rhein Flugzeugbau Fan trainer 400 D-EATP.

Trainer in Lufthansa Colors.

LB#. 8

Piper PA-42-720 D-IOSE.

Lufthansa Colors.

LB#. 329

Aerospatiale Aeritalia ATR-72 F-WWEY.

LB#. 104

Casa 212-300 F-ZVMS.

Armée de l' Air CEV colors.

BAe 146-200QC G-BPBT.

LB#. 206

BAe 146-300 G-BRAB.

Thai International colors (HS-TBL).

LB#. 207

BAe Jetstream 3200 G-BPZL.

American Eagle colors.

LB#. 209

Shorts 360-300 G-BPKZ.

China Asian Airlines colors.

LB#. 202

Grumman S2-F1 Turbo Tracker N426DF.

CDF-Californian Department of Forestry Firefighter

 turbo conversion done by Marsh Aviation.

LB#. 108

Promavia F.1300 Jet Squalus OO-JET.

Sabena colors.

Dassault Rafale A.

CEV (flight test center) 436 test-flights.

This concludes our tour of Le Bourget Air show 1989.

Photo's: Rob Vogelaar.

Research: Rob Vogelaar.

Text/web page: Marcel van Leeuwen.