Can anyone id this plane? Passenger is a defector.

Li-2 it is.

The Li-2 is painted GSB to look like a USN C-47. Thanks. I would have never guessed Li-2 in a hundred years.

G’day folks,

Certainly not a C-46, doesn’t look like a Mariner, and I’d doubt that it’s US at all.

The man appears to be James Dresnok, the American who defected to North Korea, so I’m guessing that the aircraft is something in the North Korean aerial inventory.

The US star and bar looks wrong, like something painted up for a propaganda film, and Dresnok appears to be wearing a 1970s suit. Looks like the propaganda film series Unsung Heroes/Nameless Heroes;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsung_Heroes_%28film%29

So, what 1950s-1970s Soviet/North Korean transport aircraft looks right?

Cheers,
Matt

*EDIT*

Is it a Lisunov Li-2? The North Koreans used them for years. The starboard door, the scoop and the two small windows look about right. As the image is a screen-grab from a movie, it could be distorted or ‘squashed’ slightly. Compare with this image from Wikipedia;

Looks about right.

Cheers,
Matt