Profiles of  Ar-2s
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All known Ar-2s were painted with AII green uppersurfaces and AII light blue undersurfaces.
They wore red stars with thin black outlines in 6 positions (fuselage, wing uppersurfaces, wing undersurfaces).
The propeller blades were natural alluminium with partially black rear surfaces.
Numbers of one digit were often painted on the rudder, but many planes are known without visible numbers.
This standard livery was the base for some camouflages observed on planes that survived the first days of war.

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Ar-2 white 4 probably of 33BAP, 19BAD, 
Belaya Tserkov, Gorodische, Kiev district.
Captured by Germans in summer 1941.

Ar-2 white 3 probably of 33BAP, 19BAD, 
Belaya Tserkov, Gorodische, Kiev district.

Ar-2 white 2 probably in some Lithuanian airfield.
Captured by Germans in summer 1941.

Ar-2 yellow 7 of 132 SBAP, 45 SAD at Kirovograd.
Captured by Germans in summer 1941.

Ar-2 red 2 probably of 46SBAP of 7SAD, a/d Shauliai, Lithuania.
Captured by Germans in summer 1941.

Ar-2 during trials in factory or at NII-VVS airfield.
The rudder looks painted silver.

Ar-2 yellow 2 shot down on a German installation.
Summer 1941.

Ar-2 during winter 1941. 
White paint looks visible on part of fuselage, spinner and wing leading edges.

Wreck of Ar-2 hit on the ground. 
The plane had a two-shade camouflage and a red 12 looks visible on the tal.

Ar-2 captured by Germans, unknown unit and place.
Note the unusual black camo bands on the fuselage, tail and wingroots, and the unusual position of the star.
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