Simviation Forum - Last flying Li-2 in Russia

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Real World › Specific Aircraft Types › Last flying Li-2 in Russia

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Last flying Li-2 in Russia (Read 611 times)

Aug 25^th, 2004 at 9:29am

Felix/FFDS Offline
Admin
FINALLY an official Granddad!
Orlando, FL

Gender:
Posts: 1000000627

Crashed a couple of months ago. It lost power on takeoff, clipping a building. Two on board killed, and the only ground casualty was a canine.

I guess that means that Ozzy's Li-2 is one of the last, if not the last, flying Li-2s in the world.

(The Lisunov Li-2 was a license built version of the DC-3/C-47, and if I've read correctly, it was also built in Poland and Czechoslovakia. It would be replaced in service by the Il-12/14 series, much as the Convair 240/340 replaced the DC-3 in the US.)

Felix/FFDS

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Aug 25^th, 2004 at 8:51pm

ozzy72 Offline
Global Moderator
Pretty scary huh?
Madsville

Gender:
Posts: 37122

One was recently restored completely and is flying in the Czech Republic, and I've heard rumours about one in Germany but I haven't got anything solid on that one.

Mark Wink

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Aug 26^th, 2004 at 5:09pm

Ivan Offline
Colonel
No, I'm NOT Russian, I
only like Russian aircraft
The netherlands

Gender:
Posts: 6058

Recently restored HA-LIX is the other one flying. That one looks even more like a DC-3 as it has the 'normal' cowlings instead of the fully closed ones of RA-1300K (CIS limited russian reg, flying abroad prohibited except under certain circumstances)

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page