Lisunov Li-2

what is it?

The Lisunov Li-2 (NATO reporting name: Cab), originally designated PS-84, is a license-built Soviet version of the Douglas DC-3. It was produced by State Aircraft Plant No. 84 in Moscow-Khimki and, after the factory's evacuation in 1941, at the Tashkent Aviation Production Association in Tashkent.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · low wing · retractable tailwheel (taildragger) · 28.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 280 km/htop speed
• range 2,500 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 24passengers
• size 11.3 tmax take-off weight
• built 4,937made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🏎️Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 28.8 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 2,500 km: 14× Amsterdam to Brussels.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

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introduced

1940

status

still flying

number built

4,937

role

cargo/passenger utility aircraft and light bomber

origin

🇷🇺 Soviet Union

makers

GAZ, Tashkent Mechanical Plant, Kazan Aircraft Production Association, Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association

engines

2× Shvetsov M-62 / ASh-62

crew

4

passengers

24

length

19.7 m

wingspan

28.8 m

max take-off weight

11.3 t

top speed

280 km/h

cruise speed

245 km/h

range

2,500 km

ceiling

5,600 m

wings

low wing

landing gear

retractable conventional landing gear

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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