Great Shot! But that is not a DC-3/C47 but a Russian knock-off? Like they did for the B29 and several others? No NIH syndrome in the old Soviet Union, I guess?
The Lisunov Li-2 was built in Russia under a license from Douglas. Other than minor modifications (change to metric dimensions and material) it was a DC-3 with Russian engines. And the engines were a Russian copy of the Wright R-1820's.
O.K. you young whipper-snappers, The Russians were our Allies when Lisunov licensed the manufacture of DC-3s under the "Lend-Lease" program early in WW-II. The B-29 & Tu-4 story was different, with Postwar espionage and reverse engineering involved. Look up the real stories they are worth it.
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