MiG-31 and MiG-29 Flight tour over Nizhny Novgorod

Adventure travel-flights in MiG-31 and MiG-29 fighter jets.

This tour will give you an opportunity to arrive directly in Nizhny Novgorod. Now you can have a flight from Frankfurt, Vienna or Kaliningrad.

Fighter jet tour itinerary (directly to Nizhny Novgorod)

Day one: According to this program, you arrive directly in Nizhny Novgorod via Frankfurt or Vienna or the Russian city of Kaliningrad. You will be met by our company representative and escorted to city’s best hotel the 4-star Alexandrovsky Garden Hotel (or the 4-star Nikol Hotel). Then you will have free time to relax.

Day two: This day, after a hotel breakfast, you will be taken to the Nizhny Novgorod Sokol Aviation Plant where you will be prepared for your flight in a Russian MiG-31 military fighter-jet. A brief health examination, a meeting and conference with the fighter pilot, and your preflight briefing on the rules of conduct and safety measures during the flight. Then, you will change into a special high-altitude pressure suit (for the flight to the Edge of Space), you will be instructed on correct use of the oxygen mask during the flight. After this we will go for real ejection seat system to learn how to behave in emergency situatin and just to have more fun. Then you are to be driven to the MiG-31 or MiG-29 site. Once there, you will make a preflight inspection of the aircraft, together with the pilot and then taken to the cockpit. And finally, your long desired supersonic flight to the stratosphere or high performance aerobatics or both, depending on your selected program, actually starts.

On completion of the flight, you may take photographs with the pilot in front of the aircraft, you will receive a personal performance certificate of the flight onboard the MiG-31 or MiG-29 fighter-jet. Finally, you will visit the Sokol Plant’s Aviation Museum.

After finishing all activities at Sokol and the MiG-31/MiG-29 flight, you will return to the hotel where you can take it easy from your adrenalin-filled day.

Following your tour, you will have an evening dinner in a Russian restaurant.

For a detailed program of your MiG Day at Sokol Airbase, please go to page.

Day three: This is a back-up day for the flight in MIG-29 or MIG-31. You will have an overview tour around Nizhny Novgorod in the company of guide-translator and in a business class vehicle (Mercedes). Following your holidays in Russia you will eat out, in one of the local restaurants. Then you will have a rest and time for yourself.

Day four: You will check-out from the hotel (before 12.00). Then our company representative will escort you to Nizhny Novgorod International Airport from which you will depart from Russia.

The Price of Tour-2 includes:

• visa support (invitation documentation);
• preparation of official clearances to visit "Sokol" Aviation Plant and perform the flight onboard a jet fighter;
• reception at/leaving from Nizhny Novgorod International Airport, Russia;
• transfers in a business class vehicle between the airport and the 4-star Alexandrovsky Garden Hotel or the 4-star Nikol Hotel;
• three nights B&B in a standard suite of Alexandrovsky Garden Hotel or Nikol;
• transfers in a business class vehicle between the hotel and "Sokol" Aviation Plant;
• preflight preparation at "Sokol" Aviation Plant;
• ejection seat simulator;
• flight in up-to-date MiG-31 or MiG-29 jet fighter (duration depends on the program selected);
• services of guide/translator (English, German, Spanish, French or Italian);
• photos with the fighter pilot after the flight;
• personal certificate on flight performance onboard the fighter aircraft;
• sightseeing tour of Nizhny Novgorod in a business class vehicle;
• dinner in a Russian restaurant including transfer and the guide-translator;
• insurance;
• provision of mobile phone for the all period of the tour.

See also Flight tour (MiG-31 and MiG-29) over Moscow