About legal problems of showing in-game real aircraft...

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Nobody in his right mind would publish such a cover in the modern world. I'm not surprised they got screwed over. The problem is UBI was the publisher and it was responsible for what they publish.
In the end, it was UBI that screwed Oleg, not Grumman.

That's pretty bad, but dropping the company names should have been sufficient to have the aircraft included in the game without any issues. Then again we don't really know how spineless UBI was, and if they even cared if the game had certain aircraft removed.