During the night of 24 February, 2 Turkish Air Force Airbus A400M “Atlas” (reg. 17-0080, 18-0093) landed at Kyiv airport.
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That same night Ukrainian airspace was closed following the Russian attack and the two aircraft were grounded.
Both aircraft were parked in the military zone in the north-east.
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The two aircraft remained parked in the same place until this afternoon.
Around 15:00 CET the two ‘Atlas’ left Kiev airport (with the ADS-B transponder switched off) heading west.
At 15:42 the two A400s, which by then were in the vicinity of the Romanian border, switched on the transponder and are now, after 299 days, returning home.