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Shavrov Sh-3

type of aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7491124 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Shavrov Sh-3 was a Soviet project for a single-engined light amphibious aircraft designed by Vadim Shavrov for the transport role. The programme was abandoned as the prototype was nearing completion.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 31-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shavrov, Sh-3 and type can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Shavrov Sh-3” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.