Happy Friday, Name that Plane, Part II

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/04/2014 at 15:39 • Filed to: None

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No fair Googling the registration.

Answer: Lisunov Li-2. The !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , originally designated PS-84 (NATO reporting name "Cab"), was a license-built version of the Douglas DC-3. It was produced by Factory #84 in Moscow-Khimki and, after evacuation in 1941, at TAPO in Tashkent. The project was directed by aeronautical engineer Boris Pavlovich Lisunov.

Party-vi > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 15:40

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I shall call it, "Geoff".

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 15:41

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Beechcraft Baron.

Dusty Ventures > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 15:41

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I thought I knew, I Googled the registration just to see if I was close.

I wasn't.

ttyymmnn > Dusty Ventures 04/04/2014 at 15:41

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It's kind of a trick question.

Gamecat235 > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 15:41

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It is the Russian knockoff of the DC-3... I can't recall the name.

ttyymmnn > Gamecat235 04/04/2014 at 15:42

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Yup. Answer to come in about twenty minutes if nobody guesses it. The background and the tail flash are a pretty good clues.

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 04/04/2014 at 15:43

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Nailed it. (Not really.)

My hovercraft is full of eels > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 15:44

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Lisunov Li-2. Wasn't hard, I'm Hungarian. :-)

anotherdayanotherburner1 > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 15:52

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That is the Lisunov Li-2 that was guessed in the DC-3 thread. The tail rudder is the tell.

ttyymmnn > My hovercraft is full of eels 04/04/2014 at 16:03

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ttyymmnn > anotherdayanotherburner1 04/04/2014 at 16:08

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You are correct, but Hovercraft beat you to it.

ttyymmnn > anotherdayanotherburner1 04/04/2014 at 16:09

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That Li-2 guess was mine, btw. It's what gave me the idea.

Dunnik > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 16:28

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I see what you did there.

Dunnik > ttyymmnn 04/04/2014 at 16:33

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They are, actually, Hungarian registration and Hungarian colors on the tail. Now where might the Hungarians have gotten a DC-3? Possibly from the Soviets, who got it from Uncle Sam. Hence...

Notice how the Soviets renamed the plane after the bureaucrat that oversaw the project. They probably tried to pawn it off as a Soviet designed plane, too.

Famously, Stalin ordered bags of wheat that were stamped with 'USA' and the Stars and Stripes covered up by border guards with a label that read "Product of the USSR".