This is one of the sixteen ever built (as Wikipedia says). Fifteen of those had production numbers from 77101 to 77115. This particular plane was 77110. It has got 247 flight hours of which 116 hours were of supersonic flight. Since June 1st of 1984 this plane didn’t get up into skies, so today so to say its anniversary of thirty years total non-flying. Let’s see a few photos of it from 1984 till our times, you can see the year of the photo imprinted on the bottom of the photos, which were prepared by Valeri Timoffev.
Full album is here:
One of Russian Tu-144 Supersonic Passenger Jets
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