BELARUS, POLAND & GERMANY Aviation Museums & Collections; ILA International Aerospace Exhibition & Airshow Flights in An-12, TU-134 & IL-76 to be confirmed Saturday, 28th May – Sunday, 5th June OUTLINE ITINERARY DAY 1: SATURDAY, 28th MAY Depart London’s Heathrow Airport at 15:20 on Austrian Airlines flights to Minsk, Belarus via Vienna. Transfer to the Marriott Renaissance Hotel for 3 nights on a half board basis. Website: www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mhpbr-renaissance-minsk-hotel/ Dinner tonight will be at a local restaurant. DAY 2: SUNDAY, 29th MAY During today we visit the very impressive Stalin Line north of Minsk. This historic location includes a museum with various armoured fighting vehicles (AFV’s) and aircraft. Website: www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/the-stalin-line-museum-in-belarus/6730/ Also, the Museum of the Great Patriotic War and its collection of AFVs and aircraft, ancient and modern. Website: www.warmuseum.by/ On Borovaya airfield is the fabulous collection of 30+ aircraft in the Minsk Air Museum. Website: www.sbap.be/museum/minsk/minsk.htm Optional pleasure flights will be available in an Antonov An-2 (approximately $30.00 per person; minimum 10 passengers), Yak-52 (approximately $200.00 per person) and Mil Mi-2 (approximately $54.00 per person; minimum 6 passengers). DAY 3: MONDAY, 30th MAY Today we stop by the Stepynka Monument – a Sukhoi Su7BM – in the south eastern suburbs of the city. We await confirmation of our request to see the collection of aircraft in the Minsk State Higher Aviation College …. and confirmation of our request for flights in Antonov An-12, Tupolev Tu-134 and Ilyushin IL- 76. After our evening meal we transfer to Minsk railway station and take the overnight sleeper train to Warsaw departing at 00:20 (31st May), occupying second class sleeping compartments. DAY 4: TUESDAY, 31st MAY Arrive Warsaw railway station at 08:29. See the aircraft on display outside the Muzeum Wojska Polskiego; website: www.muzeumwp.pl/o- muzeum.php We then drive 2 hours south of Warsaw to Deblin, and the excellent collection of aircraft in the “College of the Air Force Officer’s Muzeum”. As well as exhibits inside there is also an outdoor exhibition of more than 60 aircraft and helicopters, and other types of technical equipment, including missiles and radars. Website: www.muzeumsilpowietrznych.pl/ We stay tonight in a Deblin hotel late for one night on a bed and breakfast basis. Tour 227613 – Belarus – Outline Itinerary – Issue 1 Page 1 of 2 Ian Allan Aviation Tours Terminal House, Shepperton, Middlesex, TW17 8AS, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1932 255625 Fax: +44 (0)1932 231942 e-mail: [email protected] www.ianallantravel.com/aviationtours DAY 5: WEDNESDAY, 1st JUNE Driving on to Krakow we arrive at the Polish national aviation museum, the Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego, and its huge and amazing collection of aircraft. As like our previous visits we will ask to see any of their aircraft currently undergoing restoration and those in the storage facility. Website: www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/zbiory.php?w=a&zb=aeroplanes Tonight we stay in Krakow on a bed and breakfast basis. DAY 6: THURSDAY, 2nd JUNE This morning we depart by coach for Berlin, arriving mid-afternoon at the Luftfahrthistorische Sammlung Finow; uniquely this museum is located on an ex-Soviet Air Force airbase! Late afternoon we arrive at the Best Western Plus Amedia Berlin Hotel which is located in the popular Kurfurstendamm shopping street with its numerous cafes, restaurants etc. we stay 3 nights bed and breakfast. Website: www.bestwestern.de/hotels/Berlin/BEST-WESTERN-PLUS-Amedia-Berlin-Kurfuerstendamm DAY 7: FRIDAY, 3rd JUNE A full day at ILA 2016 Aerospace Exhibition & Airshow, Berlin Brandenburg Airport DAY 8: SATURDAY, 4th JUNE A free day in Berlin as you wish: second day at ILA; Tegel Airport; aircraft collection in the German Technical Museum; sightseeing. Travel around Berlin is simple and easy on the overland and underground train system. DAY 9: SUNDAY, 5nd JUNE This morning is spent looking at the large number of aircraft on display at the fabulous Luftwaffe Museum on the ex-RAF airfield at Gatow. In the afternoon we arrive at Tegel Airport and check-in for our flight back to London. COST PER PERSON: To be advised. Tour 227613 – Belarus – Outline Itinerary – Issue 1 Page 2 of 2 Ian Allan Aviation Tours Terminal House, Shepperton, Middlesex, TW17 8AS, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1932 255625 Fax: +44 (0)1932 231942 e-mail: [email protected] www.ianallantravel.com/aviationtours .