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You're right, I totally didn't notice how totally mis-shapened the nose was. Crazy. I wonder how all these mods came to be.

I do know that the A-20 had a special turret mod, but I never knew of the B-25 mods in Russia.

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David

I believe the russians sometimes remake airplanes for display, The ones I saw at Poklonnaya Goya Victory Park in Moscow, I was told some were replicas.....in a blinding snowstorm its hard to tell whats real.....

With Regard to the B-25, This is Only a guess, but I would surmize that the original nose was probably damaged, and the "engineers" not having a "good nose" to go by, did their best at restoration. I guess they never met Tom Reilly or Carl Scholl

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The Soviets did several modifications on the B-25, many of them hardly known abroad. Some books, published in recent years, show details of these mods.

On the ID of the Monino B-25: one of my friends has been in the a/c, no ID plate found.

The puzzle goes on.

Bummer..but I guess I saved myself the price of a case of vodka..for now
at least.

So what's the next step folks? Does a major body part have to be removed
in order to reveal constructor number stencils? That's gonna be more
vodka than I budgeted for...

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[quote="armyjunk2"]I believe the russians sometimes remake airplanes for display, The ones I saw at Poklonnaya Goya Victory Park in Moscow, I was told some were replicas.....in a blinding snowstorm its hard to tell whats real.....

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Both the 109 and I-16 are replicas. The P-39 and IL-2 have substantial original parts. The DB-3 is mostly original, as is the Li-2. Nearly all the other WW2 era on display are replicas.

Dave

There's a post by an individual I believe is associated with the museum with some good history of the airframe after it arrived at the museum. It also has some walk-around style pictures, including one of the instrument panel, such as it is, and a close of up of the engines, which appear to be Shvetsov M-88s.

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