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Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:07 pm
According to the posting, it's (was) on a pole in Ukraine, yet it sure doesn't look Russian...
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/11/de ... t.html?m=1Also take some time to look through the site. He has another posting of 5 (yes 5) C-46 Commando's, 2 or 3 C-47's and 2 DC-6's abandoned in La Paz.
Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:15 am
It's exactly what it claims to be. A Soviet Be-6. The engine cowls should be the dead giveaway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-6
Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:31 am
And, based on the same general latout, they built a turboprop, amphibious (tailwheel geared)version, the Be-12 'Chaika' which stayed in service up to around 1980 before being supplanted by ASW helicopters.
Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:23 pm
I dug around on the Web and was happy to find that the Beriev has survived, been refurbished and put on display at an aviation museum in the Ukraine.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia-- ... e3cf0e7bbc