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Old 14th Aug 2010, 13:08
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Aircraft identification

We've just had a large biplane over here,quite low,750-1000feet,sounded to be turbo prop.
Bearing in mind the Lowestoft airshow was nearby last two day it may have had something to do with that.
Any ideas what it was?

PS- not a Stearman,we have three of those at our strip,I know what they sound and look like


Just had a Google,it could be Antonov AN2
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Old 14th Aug 2010, 18:25
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The Turbine Grumman/Schweizer Ag-Cats that Milllers used to operate out of Wickenby have been the only turboprop bi-planes I've seen fly. They're long gone to foreign climes now.
There was an AN2 due at Lowestoft but you'd not mistake that for a turbine?
Can't think of anything else.
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Wasp,the Antonov is a turbine
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No it's not. It is a whacking great radial.......
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you cannot realy mistake an antonov
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An AN2 with a turbine engine fitted is called an AN3. They're very rare though, outside their original region.
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It was MEEEEEEEEEE and it was Antonov AN2
at the Lowestoft Air Air Show.

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