This profile represents an aircraft captured by Germans, probably during the fall 1941.
The photo shows that the aircraft is lacking of wing external panels, engine cowling, and his canopy, fuselage, rudder and landing gear appear damaged, perhaps for a bomb blast. Note the camouflaged landing gear doors and propeller blades. Two other photos of this plane are known.
 

Its characteristics seems to be: late type, probably with slats; the radio mast is not visible, but something that could be a radio box looks visible behind the headrest, so I think that the radio mast should have been removed with the engine cowling; inert gas pipe visible on the left side; a rough 28, probably yellow, is painted on the stabilizator, parallel to the ground, on both sides; standard green/black (or dark green?) camouflage, with some green repainting on the fuselage sides close to the tail; standard red stars on six positions (fuselage, tail, wing undersurfaces); camouflaged propeller blades(green/dark green) camouflaged landing gear doors (green and black mottles over light blue).

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