Two new planes in brand Strizhi color scheme
Today two planes, Mig-29UB tail No.35 and Mig-29UB tail No.80 have took off from Kubinka at 14:30 and about 15:00 they landed on the Lukhovitsy Machine Building Plant (Moscow region), which is part of MiG Russian Aircraft Building Corporation.
Planes will get new fuel system and will be painted in brand Strizhi colors. Besides, their tail numbers will be changed. Tail No.35 will replace tail No. 01 lost in Perm and tail No.80 will be No.07.
So totally Strizhi aerobatic team will have 7 planes - three two-seaters Mig-29UB, tail No. 01, 02, 07 and four single-seaters Mig-29 tail No. 03, 04, 05 and 06.


Since the MiG-29UB tail No.1 loss and due to the necessary medical survey of
Today, 27 of July at 15:16 Moscow time Mig-29UB tail No. 1 of Strizhi aerobatic team has crashed immediately after take-off, near the airfield. Pilot
Igor Valentinovich Tkachenko, honoured pilot of Russia, guards colonel, sniper-pilot, 237th Proskurov Guards aircraft demonstration center commander has a birthday!
“…in the late ’60s Moscow Military District Air Forces HQ has understood that it’s became much harder for the 234 Guards Fighters Air Regiment to keep title “aerobatic”. New aircrafts put new limits on the pilots level, their psychological and physical abilities. It was decided to create special squadron, where most talanted and trained pilots could perform aerobatics on demonstration flights. This squadron was created on the 7th June, 1974. According to the order of Commander-in-Chief USSR Airforces it got number 4 in 234 Guards Fighters Air Regiment.
Dmitry Koposov, single aerobatic pilot of the Strizhi team has a birthday on 1st of June!