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The Antonov An-2 was designed to meet a 1940s Soviet Ministry of Forestry requirement for a replacement for the much lighter, largely wooden-airframed Polikarpov Po-2, which was used in large numbers in both agricultural and utility roles.
Antonov An-2 built under licence in Poland. Some transferred to civil aviation. ... Polikarpov Po-2 built under licence in Poland, 38 S-13s converted from CSS-13 ...
The Polikarpov Po-2 (also U-2 before 1944, for its initial uchebnyy, 'training', role as a flight instruction aircraft) was an all-weather multirole Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik (Russian: Кукурузник, [3] [N 1] NATO reporting name "Mule").
The first of the Antonov Bureau's designs was the SKh-1 (Sel′sko Khozyaystvennyi- pervoy - agricultural-first one) agricultural aircraft, later redesignated An-2, designed to meet a 1947 Soviet requirement for a replacement for the Polikarpov Po-2 which was used in large numbers as both an agricultural aircraft and a utility aircraft.
In 1948 the works started production of the An-2, the ancestor of the great Antonov family, designed by Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov. The plant produced 18 modifications of the An-2: transport, passenger, agricultural, water bomber for fighting forest fires, a version for fish shoals exploration, a version for scientific and rescue operations ...
Type No. Built Service period NATO name Remarks Alekseyev I-21/211/215: 3 – n/a: Bell P-39 Airacobra: 4,719: 1943–1949 – Lend-Lease from the United States
NATO reporting name Common name Cab: Lisunov Li-2: Camber: Ilyushin Il-86: Camel: Tupolev Tu-104: Camp: Antonov An-8: Candid: Ilyushin Il-76: Careless: Tupolev Tu-154
Polikarpov Po-2, a utility aircraft used extensively in agriculture; Antonov An-2, a purpose-built agricultural aircraft; Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, known for indiscriminately introducing maize throughout the Soviet Union