Antonov AN2 Colt

Hi All

This is another aircraft seen on the grey Jersey display Apparently she is equipped like a luxury executive carrier rather than the workhorse I understand was the original intention.

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The Soviets didn't always build them pretty but they sure built them rugged...
Nice to see one actually flying instead of rotting away on some third world ramp.

Nice pair of images.

Great shots. I like the first best.

Thanks guys

Like all the displayers he put on a nice show with a few (for the size & age) tightish turns ~ I'll post another if you like as embedding right will be a bind

Great prop blur.

haha, nice to see an AN-2 in the air! thats great...

SWEEET !!!!!

haha, i couldnt believe it - i hadn't seen an AN-2 actually flying in the former Soviet Union for a number of years and all the sudden, today after you posted this shot, we are out for a sunday picnic with our friends here in Sevastopol and i hear a plane look up and its an AN-2!! haha, go figure - there are planes flying over everyday but i have never seen an AN-2... funny stuff

Andrushka wrote in post #6396600
haha, i couldnt believe it - i hadn't seen an AN-2 actually flying in the former Soviet Union for a number of years and all the sudden, today after you posted this shot, we are out for a sunday picnic with our friends here in Sevastopol and i hear a plane look up and its an AN-2!! haha, go figure - there are planes flying over everyday but i have never seen an AN-2... funny stuff

Ah!!!!! spooky eh

Somebody somewhere must be looking after & 'restoring' these birds???

heck ya that would be great if someone was resurrecting these things - i'm sure you could buy one for pennies on the dollar (or Kopeks on the Ruble if you will) in the former S.U. I'd love to have one myself some day, they're rugged as can be, and as with most any other Russian design, not complicated and not complicated to fix... now i just need my pilot license!

heres a 100% crop of the AN-2 i saw the other day - too bad all i had on me was my 24-105... oh well... this one still has red stars under the wings?? so not sure if its in active use or just left over markings

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Hard to 'tell' but it does look kind of tired so perhaps a retired workhorse

Looks good for such a crop ~ the 24-105 is nice lens.

I'm getting a ride in this one tomorrow as part of media day for the Miramar Airshow this weekend...

Box Brownie wrote in post #6418031
Hard to 'tell' but it does look kind of tired so perhaps a retired workhorse

Looks good for such a crop ~ the 24-105 is nice lens.

yeah - 24-105 is a great lens, it was a hasty shot too, i was literally running for my camera bag when i saw that thing pop up from behind the apartment blocks...

JWright wrote in post #6418304
I'm getting a ride in this one tomorrow as part of media day for the Miramar Airshow this weekend...

thats a sweet looking ride there - im a little jealous!

John

Now that gives a real sense of scale ~ I could tell the one I saw was a large plane but seeing it with people next to it shows just how big it is & a biplane at that. have a good flight and take lots of pictures