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| Date: | Monday 23 June 2025 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Horizon Skyline SL-231 Scout |
| Owner/operator: | JSC Horizon Skyline Helicopter |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | JSC Horizon Skyline Helicopter Plant, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast -
 Ukraine
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | |
On 23 June 2025, an SL-231 Scout helicopter was possibly destroyed in a 9K720 Iskander ballistic missile strike on the Skyline Helicopter Plant, located near Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv Oblast. The helicopter was likely stored at the facility at the time of the strike.
Sentinel-2 satellite imagery shows scorch marks in the locations of both the aircraft production facility, as well as storage hangar. A large fire was also registered on NASA FIRMS.
The site was likely targeted due to the presence of aerospace grade tooling at the facility allowing the production of helicopters and drones. The strike follows Russian strikes on several facilities related to Ukrainian aircraft and unmanned vehicle production over the course of 2025, with aircraft maintenance facilities at Zhytomyr, as well as aircraft manufacturing capabilities at Antonov Airfield and Hoholiv Airfield targeted by Russian drone and missile strikes. The website of the company was taken down in early 2025, indicating that this was when the facility switched to military production.
Sources:
https://x.com/3_bm15/status/1937215619822174603/photo/1
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2025-06-23;@30.83,50.36,14.00z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCYJa3zFSAI
https://onespotter.com/aircraft/fid/1054185/UR-PATH
Location
Media:
Speculation:
— 3BM15 (@3_bm15) June 23, 2025
The right Iskander possibly landed around 50.365452, 30.838015.
FIRMS shows a fire in the area. It's very far, but it appears that the angle works out. I don't have anything better.
The single comment on wikimaps says that this is a helicopter developer. https://t.co/OIyTjUviLz pic.twitter.com/z1wI3wCPkO
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Jun-2025 12:45 | Anon. | Added |
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