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That’s it. I’ve had enough. I got tired of pointless waiting. I grew worn of futile dreams in which I’d all but crave, hopelessly, for ’some time’, in ’some indefinite future’..  Nah, forget it, - I want it now!  So, I’ve decided to get my own An-2 on floats!

Scaled down, though Quite a bit, in fact. To be exact - ‘one to seventy-two’.

And it has come in as a pretty good deal too: $27.

I don’t know, what kind of ’scale’ you’d have to apply in order to ‘leverage’ a purchase of one ‘real size’ unit, but I’ll bet it would be in a range of ‘one to a few thousand‘ - to a given price quota of humble CAN $27 (and you use ‘green buck’, as measure of ‘found proportion’, of course). Sure enough, - that was another reason in favor of a deal that ‘just happened to turn up’

Of course, there’s been some additional investments made, - such as for tools, materials, paints. That’s OK, I’m looking forward to staying with this hobby for a while.

And I’m really happy it’s gonna take off with the An-2. Especially, with the float version of it.

Because working on the model will keep another interest of mine going, - I’m still on a quest of finding out an exact reason ‘why the Soviet Ministry of Civil Aviation issued an order to entirely stop operating An-2Vs in early 80s’..

Nobody discussed orders coming from highest authority in the Soviet Union. Since the moment the order was implemented, nobody - even across the country of such enormous size - would ever put the venerable bush plane on floats. Its seasonal operation was limited to either ‘on wheels’, or ‘on skis’.

And it may be only praised that there’s some business groups in Russia’s aviation that have been trying recently to make a ‘business case’ out of their attempts to ‘re-introduce’ the type for flying on floats.

I’ll keep you further informed.