Airline: | Aeroflot (SU / AFL) | Date: | 4/5/2010 |
Aircraft: | Ilyushin Il-96-300 | Location: | Greece, Heraklion N. Kazantzakis Airport (HER / LGIR) |
RegNo: | RA-96005, V. Chkalov | Photographer: | Vangelis Antonakis |
C/N: | 74393201002 | More info: | Contact photographer |
Remarks: | Valery Pavlovich Chkalov(1904 - 1938) was a Russian aircraft test pilot and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1938). Chkalov was killed on 15 December 1938 while piloting a prototype of the Polikarpov I-180 fighter, which crashed during a test flight |