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by Harvey-Specter 2753 days ago
> Fun fact: another Buran sat in an abandoned lot in an Inner Sydney (Australia) suburb for many years.

That wasn't an actual Buran, it was a test vehicle used to test the handling of the aircraft for gliding and landing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI

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Great clarification. From what I understood the OK-GLI was still refered to (colloquially and officially) as a Buran, but absolutely, the buran that ended up in Australia is not the same as the one in the Baikonur hanger.