Nebo padshih

Movie (2013)
Russian title : Небо падших
English title : Sky Fallen

Starring:
Kirill Pletnyov (Pavel Sharmanov)
Ekaterina Vilkova (Katya)
Alexander Sirin (Skabitsky)
Anastasia Panina (Tatiana)

Adventurous love-detective tale about the cruel price one pays for the ultra-rapid success and fabulous enrichment of life's new masters.

Monino Air Force Museum

Action is set in 1987 but the aircraft were then not display by manufacturer as seen here. The hangar housing the World War Two aircraft was built only in ... 2013 !

1 : Myasishchev M-50;
2 : Sukhoi T-4 (Product 100);
3 : Myasishchev M-4;
4 : Yakovlev Yak-23;
5 : Yakovlev Yak-25M c/n 0718 wearing code 03 red;
6 : Yakovlev Yak-25RV-II c/n 25992004;
7 : Yakovlev Yak-27R c/n 0703, a derivative of the Yak-25 which was overtaken in performance by the Sukhoi Su-9;
8 : Yakovlev Yak-28L c/n 2920903;
9 : Yakovlev Yak-36;
10 : Yakovlev Yak-36M c/n 7977864401137 built in 1971;
11 : Yakovlev Yak-38;
12 : Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9;
13 : Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15;
14 : Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17;
15 : Yakovlev Yak-141 c/n 48-3 (seen too on Wings of Russia (page 3));
16 : Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19PM c/n 65210104;
17 : Mikoyan Mig-21bis c/n 75021148;
18 : Mikoyan Mig-21S c/n N95210102;
19 : port float of the Beriev Be-12 (fuselage on the other side of the T-4 tail);
20 : Mikoyan Mig-23 c/n 0393202201;
21 : Lavochkin La-250 (mostly hidden by T-4 tail and wingtip of Tu-95);
22 : Tupolev Tu-95N;
23a (blue) & 23b : some Sukhoi fighter including (orange) Sukhoi Su-7B ;
23c : North American B-25D Mitchell c/n 100-23681;
23d : Lisunov Li-2T c/n 18418809;
24 : Tupolev Tu-144 reg. CCCP-77106;
25 : Lisunov Li-2T reg. CCCP-93914;
26 : Tupolev Tu-114 reg. CCCP-л5611 / SSSR-L5611;
27 : Ilyushin Il-76 reg. CCCP-86047;
28 : Myasishchev M-17 reg. CCCP-17103;
29 : Sukhoi Su-27;
30 : Antonov An-22 reg. CCCP-09334.

Blue arrow : Mil Mi-4 c/n 1104 ; (orange) Mil Mi-24A c/n 2201201 ; (yellow) Yakovlev Yak-24 c/n 27203310

(yellow) & (red) 44 white and 46 white two Mil Mi-24s.

30 : Antonov An-22 reg. CCCP-09334;
31 : cockpit section of Ilyushin Il-86 former reg. RA-86095 c/n 51483207066;
(left) Yakovlev Yak-25M c/n 0718 wearing code 03 red and Yakovlev Yak-25RV-II c/n 25992004 (11 red on the nose).

Inside Monino Air Force Museum Building

Panoramic view (left to right, front view) :

Petlyakov Pe-2;
Bell P-63A Kingcobra s/n 42-69775;
Bereznyak-Isaev BI-1 (replica) on both still;
Polikarpov U-2;
Polikarpov R-5;

(now first row; plane seen from the rear) :

Yakovlev Yak-9U;
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (replica);
Polikarpov I-16 (replica) (low right corner of the 2nd picture).

Some aircraft seen again (right to left) :

01 red : Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 in front of the white twin tail Myasishchev M-17;
03 red is a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI (mostly hidden too by the MiG-9);
01 red (behinf the character) is a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17;
twin props of the Beriev Be-12 in the background;
(center) the farest background shows the blue line of the Ilyushin Il-62.

Yakovlev Yak-25M in front of the Tupolev Tu-95N.

Mil Mi-10

(background) Between the green Mil Mi-8T and the Mil Mi-24V 44 white,
Mil Mi-10 c/n 8680604K built in 1968 and used by Soviet Air Force with code 44. At Monino since 1974. In 2020, painted to simulate the second prototype in the grey/orange scheme used for the European Tour (Germany, Nederlands, Paris-Le Bourget...).

Night action now with the tail of the second Mil Mi-24V (46 white to the far right).
34 White is the code of the Mil Mi-4.

Mil Mi-8T

Various Aircraft

1 = Sonex Xenos (an American homebuilt motor glider / light-sport aircraft). Action set in 1987 so slighty anachronic as Sonex was found only in 1998;
2 = Yakovlev Yak-52 (maybe RF-00983 seen on this picture shot in 2008?) ;
3 = Unidentified Aircraft;
4 = Unidentified Airliner (model with rear-mounted engine)

Sukhoi Su-30 MKI

Yakovlev Yak-55M

The next action is filmed Serpukhov Drakino airfield, 70 km south of Moscow.
Yakovlev Yak-55M minus its rudder and propeller: maybe reg. RF-00178 c/n 920509.