marine air wrote:
FWIW. Just a guess but doubt it's going to Russia. They have no warbird movement. Second, the warbirds that have been restored over there, and there may be a few being restored as we speak have all been for U.S. and British collectors and left the country. Migs, Yak's, Polikarpovs, LAGG's, and P-63's have all ended up over here.
Second, if someone was to start a collection therre they would simply purchase what they wanted from a museum, using the corrupt system of government. They certainly wouldn't pay retail.
Last , as far as flying multi engine versus single engine, there tend to be two somewhat different styles for flying. Most twin engines are less fun. more procedures and checklist oriented. They tend to have more than twice the operating costs per hour, and yearly maintenance is much more costly. More pilots , crews and hours in training are required.
I tend to agree with this statement. I have no knowledge of where the A-20 is going, but I think it would be highly unlikely that it would go to Russia for the above reasons. In addition to this, I believe that Monino has substantial remains of at least one A-20, if not more. Also, I've heard there are several substantial unrecovered A-20 wrecks in the wilds of Russia. I would think it would be much easier to procure from "in house" and restore "in house" and save lots of money and time/effort/expense on importing a foreign aircraft into Russia. Also, as mentioned above, Russia really has no warbird movement there to speak of. Sure, they have a few "one-off" recoveries to some of the national museums and such, but there is no wide spread interest in W.W.II aviation like there is in the Western World. If there was, the production line of I-15's, I-16's, I-153's and Yak's would have stayed there. I believe every single one of those aircraft ended up outside of Russia and/or the former Soviet republics.
I might be wrong, but that's just my gut instinct talking here.
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