All were based at Myachkovo airfield near Moscow. This variant was used for ice monitoring, fisheries monitoring and as a transport aircraft. It had improved communication equipment, including a data-link system. Rescue equipment was also carried on board. An-30FG Czech designation for the single Czech Air Force An-30, after being retrofitted with a western weather radar. An-30M Meteozashchita Version equipped for weather research. It can spray dry ice into the atmosphere for weather control duties. The dry ice was stored in eight containers per 130 kg instead of the photographic equipment. An-30R A production An-30 CCCP-30055/RA-30055(c/n1101) converted to an NBC reconnaissance aircraft with air-sampling pods under the forward fuselage and other sensors for monitoring nuclear, biological and chemical warfare by-products. A second example, 30080, was acquired by the VVS, and had a single sampling pod on the port pylon and provision for dropping large flare bombs from the starboard pylon. An-30R RA-30055 was used for monitoring the plume from the Chernobyl No.4 nuclear reactor fire and became permanently radioactive in the process, being withdrawn from use immediately afterwards. Operators Military operators Bulgarian Air Force - one (as of 2017) Romanian Air Force – three operated from 1976; currently two (as of 2017) Russian Air Force Sudanese Air Force Ukrainian Air Force - three (as of 2017) Former Military operators Afghan Air Force received an An-30 in 1985. Angolan Air Force Cuban Air Force Czech Air Force retired their An-30 in 2003. Czechoslovakian Air Force Mongolian Air Force People's Liberation Army Air Force Soviet Air Force Vietnam People's Air Force Civil operators Aero-Fret Former civil operators CAAC Airlines MIAT Mongolian Airlines Moskovia Airlines Lukiaviatrans Myachkovo Air Services Novosibirsk Air Enterprise Polet Airlines Practical Geodinamics Center ARP 410 Airlines Ukraine National Airlines Vietnam Air Service Company Specifications (An-30) See also References Photo gallery An-30 aircraft at Pravda.Ru Notes Bibliography External links Pictures of An-30 An-030 1960s Soviet special-purpose aircraft High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1967 Twin-turboprop tractor aircraft