Tupolev 134 Plane - Chisinau Airport

The monument includes the inscription in Romanian "Avionul TU-134. E reinstalat în cinstea lucrătorilor aviației civile a Republicii Moldova. 18.V.2006", and in Russian "Самолет ТУ-134. Установлен в честь тружеников гражданской авиации Республики Молдова. 18.V.2006", translated in English as "The TU-134 airplane. Reinstalled in honor of the workers of civil aviation of the Republic of Moldova. 18 May 2006". Tu-134 (NATO reporting name: Crusty) is a Soviet passenger aircraft for short and medium-haul airlines, developed in the early 1960s at the Tupolev Design Bureau and mass-produced from 1965 to 1984 at the Kharkov Aviation Production Association (complete production was discontinued in 1989). One of the most mass-produced passenger aircraft assembled in the Soviet Union. A total of 852 aircraft of all modifications were built. The first flight was made on July 29, 1963, and it entered service in September 1967.