Last flying Li-2 in Russia

[Felix/FFDS]

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.)

[ozzy72]

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

[Ivan]

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)