Withdrawn An-2s at Buyant Vkha in the summer of 1994. All carry ‘Mongol’ registration prefixes, a variety of colour schemes and national markings.

Line up of An-24s and An-26s at Buyant Ukha Airport. Mi-8 in the background.

Ilyushin Il-14s entered service in April 1958. The type was largely replaced by the An-24 from the mid-1960s, but is thought to have served on into the 1980s before full retirement.

Mil Mi-8 Hip in MIAT colours, 1994. Mongolia has never systematically used registrations, but this example carries no letter prefix at all.

Five Harbin Y-12 IIs form the latest equipment for MIAT and illustrate increasing reliance on China. The ‘D-’ prefix to the registration is unexplained.

Two former Korean Boeing 727s on the Ulaanbaatar apron. The Boeings are rare examples of Mongolian civil aircraft carrying the country’s ICAO registration prefix, MT-.

Dobrolet Junkers F.13s at Alton Bulag in 1931.