Sursa foto: Artmark
Nicolae Ceausescu's presidential plane - Rombac "Super One-Eleven", will be put up for sale at a starting price of 25,000 euros, on May 27, at the "All star game" elegance auction organized by Artmark, agerpres reports.
According to Artmark, in August 1982, the first and only passenger plane built in Romania - ROMBAC 1-11 or Rombac One-Eleven was presented publicly, and its first official flight took place in the autumn of the same year at Baneasa airport, in front of the entire Romanian state leadership. The inaugural passenger flight of the ROMBAC 1-11 plane took place a year later, in January 1983, on the Bucharest-Timisoara route, and the first overseas flight of this aircraft was carried out in March of the same year on the Bucharest-London route. Thus, Romania became the first communist state in the world, except for the USSR, which produced a jet passenger plane, the engines being manufactured in Romania, at the Aerofina and Turbomecanica plants, under a Rolls Royce license.