> I can't help but wonder about the age of the North Koreans' civil fleet > (or should that be "civil" fleet?). It's probably been forty years or so > since they were on anyone's good side..... :-) In the JP 2001/02 edition, the Air Koryo listing shows 23 aircraft. 15 show the date manufactured. These aircraft, number, and year manufactured are: TU-134 2 1983 IL-18 2 1965/68 (1 per year) TU-154 4 1975/76/77/83 (1 per year) IL-62 4 1979/85/86/88 (1 per year; 2 are operated for the government) IL-76 3 1990 This comes out to abou 20.5 years per aircraft. Even if you assume the two oldest IL-62's are operated for the government, then the age is still over 20 years. The other aircraft shown are 8 AN-24's. David Ross http://damiross.go.cc http://home.earthlink.net/~damiross/airlines.html http://home.earthlink.net/~damiross/books.html