Was interesting to read this thread. Thanks for the discussion:) Will be great to find some memoirs or other literature/documents where the number of this plane can be confirmed. My small contribution:
So it was a regimental marking inside the division.
I believe Massimo is correct.
About the spinner colour,
on ava.org.ru it's been suggested that the spinners of the three regiments mentioned above might have been:
White- 116th IAP
Blue - 31st IAP
Red - 164th IAP
If this is correct, then Skomorohov's plane, while it belonged to the 164th IAP, might have had a red spinner.
And Steph, as I already mentioned about the lightning/arrow - in my opinion the emblem of the 295th IAD was an arrow in the shape of a lightning. Meaning that the shaft was probably the same thickness throughout (like a shaft of an arrow), and had an arrow-like tail on the end of it. This image shows the end of the (lightning)arrow well
. Also, the tails of most of the lightnings/arrows in 295th IAD seem to be extended past the number, so chances are that White-19's arrow's tail extended past the number too.
About the initial colour of the plane, it's hard to tell from the info that A.Stankov provided, because there seems to be a discrepancy. If the serial number of this plane was 39210719 that means that it was a type 39 plane of the 7th series. 7th series, in theory were built in autumn of 1943. Which means that this plane could not have existed yet in spring and summer of 1943. And if it was built in autumn then it would have been given a grey/grey camouflage at the factory since the factories switched to this camo scheme in July 1943.
It's worth noting that the plane in the photo attached above seems to have a green/black camouflage. So maybe Skomorohov's plane was painted green/black after all, but the serial number that we are using as reference is wrong?