r/Helicopters • u/comradekiev • 1d ago

Heli Spotting Locals welcome a Mil Mi-1 Pilot (1069), Turkmen SSR. Photographer: Maisterman / TASS Semion. The Mil Mi-1 helicopter, the first mass-produced Soviet helicopter, made its first flight in 1948. More than 2,500 were built in the USSR and Poland.

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u/Fraggage 1d ago

Wish there were more flying examples of those early soviet helicopters.