"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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Seb wrote:

Hello hope it's the right place to ask,
I don't know if anyone finds it strange why ex-Soviet aircraft are
rarely exported to the West, even though they are known for being cheap
and easy to operate. I assume there's a good reason I just don't know


By West you mean the US. My airfield in England has its fair share of ex
soviet aircraft including an AN2.

Many of them operate on the register the country they came from, in the case
of the An2 its on the Hungarian register and therefore falls into the ICAO
rights and privileges.

In the same way the are many US registered aircraft in the UK too popular
because the airworthiness regime is less arduous.