The Old Airport at Osh

The following day while Johnnybek nurses his hangover, I go walkabout in Aviogorod (literally Aviation town), where all residents work in the nearby airport. Soon enough, I stumble upon the old airport, and decide to walk inside and explore.

This place is by far the coolest place in Osh and is littered with old single-engine planes, helicopters and a collection of no longer working Yak-40 jets.

 

Part of the collection of old Aeroflot single engine planes

One of the old Aeroflot planes has a broken window so we can peek inside at the controls.

Old Aeroflot helicopters, the broken window once again lets us take a peek inside.

Flight controls of the old helicopter

Another Aeroflot helicopter rusting at Osh’s old airport

Body of an old Yak-40, sans cockpit, tail and wings.

Part of the fleet of aging Yak-40 jets at Osh’s old airport.

Look what we have here, an old Kyrghyzstan airlines Yak-40 without a cabin door, let’s go inside and look around.

Yak-40 cabin

Yak-40 cockpit

Yak-40 pilot, or is that co-pilot?

Support vehicles for the old airport at Osh in Kyrgyzstan.

How did Kyrgyzstan airlines obtain such a large collection of Yak-40 jets? It so happens that they were Aeroflot jets during the time of the USSR, however once it collapsed and all the republics declared independence, any Aeroflot plane on the tarmac at a Kyrgyz airport became the property of Kyrgyzstan and their new airline Kyrgyzstan Airlines.

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