Back to work !

After a short break it’s back to business. The open day was very well visited. Over 900 people went to Eindhoven airport to see our Yaks and talk to the crew members. Yakkes welcomed over 80 new members what makes a total of 240 members now, well done promo team and volunteers! The new Yak-50 is waiting for the FLA (Russian Aviation Authorities) to deregistrate the aircraft from F- (French) to RA- (Russian).

Since the weather is worthless anyway we decided to repaint the Red Yak. It was delivered with a lousy paint job 3 years ago and paint was falling off anywhere. We did find a company, Aviation Cosmetics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands http://www.aviation-cosmetics.com/ who is willing to help us out with our problem. This highly professional aviation paint company will repaint the Red colored Yak into the same colors whenever they have time. We expect it to be ready within a couple of weeks.

In the mean time it’s pity to see a bald aircraft in the corner, looking at a HUGE B757. It’s incredible to watch these guys work. A Boeing 757 is coming in, within 4 hours the complete aircraft is stripped of it’s paint, the next day it will be cleaned and sandpapered here and there, repainted and within 5 days the aircraft is leaving the hangar with fresh paint, unbelievable.

Well anyway, we are very proud that Aviation Cosmetics is taking care of the Red colored Yak, our baby is in good hands.

Keep ya posted…