Emelyanenko's white 100

 
Updated on August 20, 2012
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Vassili Emelyanenko of 7. Gv. ShAP with his colorful Il-2M.

Emelyanenko was a musician; in the movie, he is singing one of his songs.

The plane s clearly a two-seater with straight metal wing with short antenna mast, 'type 1943 early'.

The number 100 has a thin black outline.
A detail of the personal emblem of Emelyanenko.
This image shows something more of the wing than the previous ones. Unfortunately we don't know how the front part was painted.

 

 

 

 

The tail of 'white 100' shows the characteristic black amoeba on the tail and the white outlines on the red stars, both characteristic of the planes built in Zavod 18 up to August 1943. This confirms that this plane had all-metal wings and black-green camouflage.

 

 

 

 

Nikolay Ostapenko and Vasiliy Emelyanenko in front of an Il-2, probably of Ostapenko. It shows red stars with white outlines both on the spinner and on the landing gear nacelles, and the white band on the rear fuselage that looks to be characteristic of this unit.

It can't be excluded that Emelyanenko's white 100 had the same markings.

I suppose that it was another plane: the number 100 is not visible, and one can see a slogan 'za...' absent on the more famous plane with the music. However, one can see also the white band on the fuselage anyway.