British firm Jet Art Aviation has supplied a trio of beautifully restored ex-RAF aircraft to a museum in Estonia. While there it also arranged a special photography shoot, profiling Cold War icons of a different origin. Jet Art boss Chris Wilson reports
Tucked away in northern Europe, less than 12 miles (20km) from the Russian border, is an impressive collection of preserved military aircraft. The Estonian Aviation Museum was founded in 1999 and has been steadily expanding ever since. Thanks to several recent additions from the UK and other nations the attraction now offers several unique photo opportunities.
Where else can you see former Cold War adversaries sitting side by side – a Panavia Tornado F.3 sharing space with that most fabled of Iron Curtain combatants, the MikoyanGurevich MiG-25 Foxbat, or indeed a Harrier GR.3 alongside a Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer?
Over the last few years, our team at Jet Art Aviation (JAA) in Yorkshire has been working closely with the Estonians on the supply of three former RAF airframes. Perhaps the most significant, arriving in April 2019, was Tornado F.3 ZE256. To assist with the aircraft’s assembly and installation a small JAA team flew to Estonia. Of course, the trip a…