Ukraine Grand Aviation Tour is for aviation enthusiasts and spotters who like to take part in Ukraine aviation tour and look at historical airplanes and helicopters, enjoy special flights by Soviet aircrafts and helicopters.

You spend five days and four nights of the aviation tour visiting top aviation attractions in Ukraine and look at unique aircrafts with possibility to visit cockpits and make a lot of pictures and videos.

Top aviation sights and attractions in Ukraine:

- Antonov Plant
- Ukraine State Aviation Museum
- Museum Aviation Training Hangar
- Kharkiv Aviation Plant
- Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation
- Kropyvnytskyi Flight Academy
- Kryvyi Rih Aviation Museum

Next Ukraine Grand Aviation Tour is expected: 2022

Day 1

Meeting at Hotel "Ukraine" at 08:45 and transfer to Antonov Airport (GML, UKKM).

Start Antonov Plant Tour and look at aircrafts An-225 Mriya, An-124 Ruslan, An-22 Antei, An-178, An-158, An-148, An-140, An-28.

Antonov Airlines is active airline and the priority for them is air freight transportation - their aircrafts are shown by availability only.

Next transfer to Svyatoshin Airport (Antonov-1 Airport, UKKT). Lunch at Antonov Dining Room.

Visit the sister of the largest airplane in the world - An-225 Mriya II, Aircraft Assembly Hangar of An-148 and An-158, Antonov Static and Fatigue Tests Workshop, Antonov Wind Tunnel (Airtube), Antonov Flight Simulators Center to look at flight simulators An-148, An-74, An-124 and the first analog flight simulator with small airplane on which installed camera flying over reduced scale aerodrome layout.

Next visit People's Museum of Antonov Plant and Memorial Cabinet of Aircraft Designer Oleg Antonov and get Antonov official souvenirs. Group picture in front of aircraft An-2 - the biggest success of Oleg Antonov.

Transfer from Svyatoshin Airport (Antonov-1 Airport, UKKT) to Kyiv International Airport (IEV, UKKK). Flight to Kropyvnytskyi Airport (UKKG). Evening dinner in the restaurant with Ukrainian cousine. Night in hotel in Kropyvnytskyi.

Day 2

Breakfast in the hotel. Departure from hotel by private van to Flight Academy of National Aviation University. Visit Aviation Museum anf then Flight Simulators Center to look flight simulators of L-410 and An-26 (optional activity - to fly each one or just one of them for 30 minutes). Next transfer to Aviators Alley with Aircraft-Museum An-24, unique and only one in Ukraine jet bomber Ilyushin Il-28, Yak-40 with sign "Donbass" of former Kirovograd Airlines, Mig-21 and put some coins in famous nest hat "Starling Box Forever" for luck and safe flights.

Transfer to Kropyvnytskyi Airport (UKKG). On arrival - ramp tour of helicopters and aircrafts IL-78 (the first prototype), pink Yak-40, Mil Mi-2, An-2, L-410, An-24, An-26 with possibility to visit cockpits of some of them and Kropyvnytskyi Flight School Hangar with lights aircrafts which use for students who learn to fly.

Next visit URGA Airlines aircrafts An-24, An-26 and Saab340B.

Flight to Kryvyi Rih International Airport (UKDR). Lunch in Kryvyi Rih restaurant with Ukrainian cousine. Transfer to Kryvyi Rih Aviation Museum. Ramp tour of aircraft Tupolev Tu-114 and other Soviet aircrafts and helicopters - TU-154, TU-134, Yak-42, An-12, Mi-8.

Transfer to Kryvyi Rih International Airport (UKDR) and flight to Zaporizhzhia International Airport (UKDE). Transfer to the hotel with evening dinner.

Day 3

Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to Zaporizhzhia International Airport (UKDE) and helicopter flight from Motorsich Heliport by helicopters Mi-2 / MSB-2 to Shiroke Airfield by by route: Motorsich Heliport - South of Zaporizhzhia City - Khortisya Island - DniproGES - Shiroke Airfield (landing).

Shiroke Airfield Ramp Tour of 58 Let L-29, 13 Antonov An-2, An-24, 9 Mil Mi-2, 2 PZL-104 Wilga.

Fly back to Motorsich Heliport and then make ramp tour of aircrafts of Motorsich Airlines - An-12, An-74, An-24, An-140 (aircrafts are shown by availability only) and watching movie about the history of Motor Sich Company. Lunch at Motor Sich Dining Room.

Transfer to Motor Sich Plant and if we get the permit - there is a chance to visit flight simulators of Mi-2, Mi-8 and even Mi-24. Next transfer to Boguslaev Museum of Technology for aircraft and helicopter engines guided tour.

Transfer back to Zaporizhzhia International Airport (UKDE) and flight to Kharkiv International Airport (UKHH).

Transfer by private van to Korotych Airfield (UA-0052). Optional flights by aircrafts An-28, L-29, Yak-18T, Yak-52.

Transfer to the hotel in Kharkiv. Evening dinner. Night in hotel.

Day 4

Breakfast in the hotel and next transfer to Kharkiv Aviation Plant and visit of Kharkiv Aviation Plant Museum with exposition under the sky of aircrafts Tu-104A (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had training by that aircraft for weightless simulation), Tu-124, Tu-134, Yak-18, MiG-15.

Next visit Aircraft Assembly Hangars of An-74 and An-140.

Driving to Vovchansk Airfield with remains of L-29 Delfin, Mi-2, An-2 aircrafts and helicopters of Former Vovchansk Aviation School of DOSAAF named after Alexander Pokryshkin. Visiting L-29 Monument that was erected to 40th Anniversary of foundation of Volchansk Aviation School of DOSAAF Pilots.

Transfer from Kharkiv Aviation Plant to Kharkiv International Airport (UKHH) and take-off to Poltava International Airport (UKHP).

Transfer to Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation with ramp tour of Tu-160 White Swan (one in the world in museums), Tu-95MS, Tu-22M3, Tu-22K, Tu-16, Tu-134UBL, Mi-6A. Lunch at restaurant in Poltava.

Transfer back to Poltava International Airport (UKHP) and flight to Bila Tserkva Airport (UKBC). Visit of Bila Tserkva Cargo Aviation Complex and Bila Tserkva Air Club "Pilot" named after Pavel Popovich with ramp tour of aircrafts Il-76, An-12, An-2 (with Oleg Antonov portrait on the fuselage), helicopter Ka-26 (only flying Ka-26 in Ukraine).

Optional flights during 15 or 30 minutes by:
- Antonov An-2 (with Oleg Antonov portrait on the fuselage, 6 passengers)
- helicopter Ka-26 (6 passengers)
- Antonov An-3T (12 passengers)

Flight from Bila Tserkva Airport (UKBC) to Kyiv International Airport (IEV, UKKK). Launch of Paper Planes as the wish of success and safe flights!

After arrival transfer to Kiev hotel and evening dinner.

Day 5

Morning transfer to Kyiv Helipad for Chernobyl Helicopter Tour for 1 hour and 45 minutes by helicopter Mi-8-MTV-1 or Mi-2M, Mi-2MSB-1.

After the helicopter tour transfer by private van to Kiev Museum Aviation Training Hangar for guided tour of aircrafts Tupolev ANT-7, Tu-154, Yak-42, An-24, An-2, L-410 and helicopters Mi-2, Mi-4, Mi-8, Ka-26 with cockpit visits.

Lunch in Kiev Aviation Restaurant.

Next visit Ukraine State Aviation Museum for special extended aviation tour with opening of cockpits of Tu-154, Tu-134UBL, Il-86, Il-62, Mi-26, Mi-8, Il-76, Be-12, Tu-142, Tu-22 M3 specially for the participants of Ukraine Grand Aviation Tour.

Then visit of State Enterprise Plant 410 CA to look Antonov aircarfts in maintenance and listen to engines during the active tests.

Transfer from Kiev to Yellow Plane Restaurant with yellow Yak-40 for Aviation Gala Dinner with music concert.

Evening transfer to Hotel "Ukraine" and Kiev city center.

You welcome to join Ukraine Grand Aviation Tour!

Booking of Ukraine Grand Aviation Tour is by e-mail : contact@ukraine-kiev-tour.com or +38 050 936 96 80 (WhatsApp, Viber)

The tour itinerary could be change during the tour depends on situation and weather conditions.

Total cost includes:

- English speaking guide
- transfers by private van in Kiev, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kropyvnytskyi, Kharkiv and Kryvyi Rih
- ramp guided tours by the itinerary
- entry tickets to aviation museums
- meals (breakfast in the hotel, lunch and dinner)
- accommodation in hotels of 3 stars class (Standard Twin) in Kropyvnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Kiev
- air charter by flight route: UKKK - UKKG - UKDR - UKDE - UKHH - UKHP - UKBC - UKKK
- helicopter charter Mi-2 / MSB-2 to Shiroke Airfield
- travel insurance
- official Antonov souvenirs - keychain An-225, safty cards An-225 and An-124, patch An-225, pin An-225, notebook An-124, Antonov branded bag and pen (the number and types of official Antonov souvenirs could be different depends on current tour date)
- paper plane :-)

Total cost does not include:

- international flights to / from Kiev
- personal expenses
- optional aircraft and helicopter flights