Iran Police with title name of "Police Aviation" is the newest of IRAN-140 aircraft customer.They bought one of them with tail number HESA 90-03 but you can see the Safiran remained logo on the rudder of this aircraft! what is your idea? Look at the shot :
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1286347/L/

And other Iranian airlines news :
Conviasa makes flights from Caracas(CCS) to Tehran(THR) via Damascus(DAM) with A340-200 (YV1004) on Sundays and gets back to home on Tuesdays morning.And unfortunately we will not see Iran Air 747 SP's in this long route again  see the shot from Conviasa A340 in THR
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1286349/L/

Another new Tu-154M joint to Iran Air Tours Airlines again! EP-MCJ
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1286346/L/

Kish Air leased a F-100 from Iran Aseman Airlines and uses it in domestic routes.Iran Aseman bought this bird from TAM and leased it to Kish Air directly.Kish Air have a lot of problems since they missed those 5 MD-83's.... Now Kish Air have 2 Tu-5 and 1 F-100 and some F-50's
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1286344/L/

And in this shot you can see a shot of Caspian Tu5 with the view from Tehran-Mehrabad control tower !
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1286343/L/

And finally a nice view from Eram Air Tu5 in sunset
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1286342/L/

How many IRAN-140 are flying today?

Thanks Shahram.
Send us news from Iran as much as possible.
Aviation is changing every day there with their short leasing. Maybe one of the last country in the world with a real interesting aviation ("old" westen with 707, 727, 747-100/200/SP, F-28..... and soviet).
Should be nice to have IrAn-140 back in the sky with airlines (I remember, while visiting Kish Island 3 years ago, I saw a IrAn-140 model in full Kish Air colors in a travel agent office. I tried to buy it but the answer was...... NO!).
They had orders for some Iranian airlines but after the problems with Safiran...... They stopped flying.

Quoting Alessandro (Reply 1): How many IRAN-140 are flying today?

I saw only this IrAn-140 during about 2 years ago! 1 month before,my friend who is working at the airport told me about a IrAn-140 that her tail number was HESA 90-03 So I think only this one is active now.But I heard about 8 new IrAn-140 that Iran Air Tours want to buy....I'm not sure.

Quoting Shahram16216 (Thread starter): Conviasa makes flights from Caracas(CCS) to Tehran(THR) via Damascus(DAM) with A340-200 (YV1004)

On JP.net I found pictures of YV1004 in the Iberia maintenance hangar in MAD. I'm not sure for how long this plane will be there or if she is back in service.

Thanks for the updates Shahram, Its not too often we get Iranian news. Glad to see some news .

Shahram-jaan,
Have you got any news on more F100s joining either IR or EP in the near future? F100 seems to one of the best aircraft for the Iranian domestic sectors (average flight time 60-90 minutes). I flew on a F100 to Gorgan (GBT) last year, It was very nice.

Superb to have fresh news from Iran..............continue this way Sharham !


Despite this is a civil forum , i would like to point out my very first wish in Iran , is to see a picture of one of the ex Iraq AFMirage F1..............

Is Iran planing to invest some renovation money in their airports? They have major multi million cities, but the airports seem to be really outdated. Although IKA seems to be in par with modern day structures with gates, all other cities seem to be lagging behind. As an architect and a civil aviation addict, I would love to see some new good looking terminals being built in Iran. The country certainly deserves to have them. But I am sure its because of the government!

Also, I posted an inquiry but didn't get any responses, does anyone know why most Iranian airports have a "Yellow" landing zone marker instead of the usual white color?

I flew IR JFK-THR back in 1978! I am guessing on a 747SP, and I think it was via LHR. Actually got a tour of the flight deck. Too bad I don't remember much! Who knows, that bird may still be in service!


Thanks for the updates.