14432 Orient Express 1/144 Transport aircraft Li-2T winter version

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Initially, the main version of the aircraft was the passenger PS-84 (Li-2P), which is presented in the technical dediv style="display:none"ion in the drawing tab. Many civil aircraft were produced in the transport version of the Li-2T, equipped with a cargo floor and a door like a military version of a similar purpose. The machine allowed to carry loads with a total weight of up to 3000 kg. Li-22 - twin-engine passenger aircraft - licensed version of the American aircraft Douglas DC-3 .Serial production since the middle of 1938 at the plant №84 named after V. P. Chkalov in Khimki, in the version of civil PS-84. In April 1941, the factory in Khimki collected the 100th plane. By the beginning of the war ,Aeroflot had 72 PS-84, 49 - in the air force, 5 in the Navy. From July 1941, the aircraft began to put defensive armament. During the war, the Soviet air force received about 2,000 Li-2 aircraft.