Why Can’t This Plane Be Sold in the West? (Beriev Be-200)

[@wayneyd2]

Better question is why the west won't build our own?

[@dafyddllewellyn6636]

Ever heard of Type Certification? Russia does not, as far as I am aware, have a bilateral airworthiness agreement with any Western nation.

[@janosvass5628]

Many great engineering ideas came from Russia, the execution of these ideas however, not always as good as it could be.