Antonov An-2

An-2L (Lesozashchita – forestry protection)

A fire bomber variant with three cassettes each holding 120 ampoules, containing 1litre (34 fl.oz.) of fire-retardant which were dropped as required.

Trials revealed that this system was inefficient and further work was abandoned.[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]

'An-2LL (Letayuschaya Laboratoriya – flying laboratory)


Any of a number of An-2's used as testbeds for various equipment. One An-2SKh (RA-70547), modified by the State Research Institute of Aircraft Systems.

(GosNII AS – Gosoo-darstvennyy Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Aviatsionnykh Sistem), for environmental research, had a lateral observation blister which has often caused the aircraft to be mis-identified as an An-2PF.^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]}

An-2LP (Lesopozharnyy – forest firefighter)

A single prototype comverted from aA An-2V floatplane, with 630 litre(139 Imp.Gal.) water tanks in each float for dropping on fires.

The water tanks could be re-filled in flight, as the aircraft skimmed the surface of suitable bodies of water.

Prior to dropping an alkaline wetting agent (NP-1 Sulphanol) was added to the water which was released through the scoops which also picked up the water to refill the tanks.

Ten production aircraft were built seeing service in the Siberian and Far East regions of the USSR.[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]

An-2LV (Lesnoj Vodnyj - forest hydroplane)

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An-2M (Modifityseerovannyy – modified)

The designation An-2M was also used in the USSR for a much improved agricuiltural crop-sprayer/duster.

The An-2M featured an all-duralumin welded and bonded fuselage, lockable tailwheel, enlarged fibre-glass hopper, Shvetsov ASh-62 radial engine with power take off to an auxiliary gearbox to drive the dusting/sprayignequipment, an angular fin of increased area, a hermetically sealed cockpit with no access to the cabin/hopper area.

The hopper capacity was increased 42% to 2,000Litres (440Imp.Gal.) delivering product through an outlet enlarged to 400mm (15½in) with dry product being fed to two dusting outlets at the tips of the lower wings.

Due to lack of capacity at the Kiev factory and [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] the An-2M was manufactured at DMZ N0.464 (Dolgoproodnyy Machinery Factory No.464) to the north of Moscow.^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]}

An-2P (Polish: pasażerski - passenger) (Russian: Passazheerskiy - passenger)

Russian and Polish production of a standard passenger variant.

Russian production An-2P's had 10 permanently installed seats in a heated insulated cabin.

Polish production aircraft had 12-14 seats, two jump seats for children and a baby cot. A total of 837 An-2P's were built.

An-2PD-5 (Polish: Pasażerski [samolot] Dyspozycyjny – executive aircraft's) —

The production version of the 'An-2PD-6', featuring almost identical interior furnishings with a work table and reading light replacing one of the chairs.

An-2PD-6 (Polish: Pasażerski [samolot] Dyspozycyjny – executive aircraft's) —

A prototype six seat VIP variant of the An-2P produced at WSK-Mielec in 1970, featuring a folding table, mini-bar, pantry and toilet.