A Ukrainian defector flew this MiG-3 to Melitopol airfield on 3 December 1941, surrounding to Rumanian troops. This was the second MiG-3 captured by Rumanians. It looks to have the early overall green uppersurfaces, stars with black outlines (fuselage sides, upper and lower wing surfaces) and a small red star on the rudder (visible on another version of this photo). Note the metallic stripe over the spinner junction.

The aircraft was repainted in Rumanian markings and flown at Brasov by ARR's top ace Cpt 'Bazu' Cantacuzino, and used as an "aggressor" for training purposes.

Soviet troops seized this aircraft from the Rumanians during September of 1944, after the Rumania has broken its alliance with Germany and established a new one with the Soviet Union.

The caracteristcs are:

• short nosed, without slats;
• it has the radio mast, but radio wires an their attachment on the tail don't appear on the photos;
• there is a thin metallic stripe to cover the gap behind the spinner, as on late MiG-3s;
• the demarcation between light blue and upper colors is conserved nearly everywhere, as the fading off on wingroots; this probably means that the light blue and green were the original Russian colors; the green surfaces were partially repainted with Rumanian green and brown;
• the white E.19 on the vertical stabilizer referred to Escadrila 19 observatie (19th Spotting Squadron) based at Melitopol during 1941. Below it there is a large white "2". On the rudder there were the 3 colors of the Romanian flag. It had the Micheal's cross  followed by the yellow line between the cockpit and the tail.
• there are probably Michael's crosses on the wings in four positions, and the wingtip undersurfaces were probably yellow for recognition;
• it's likely that Rumanian colors extends partly on the wing uppersurfaces, even if the photo shows a strong reflex (probably a wet surface) and nothing is recognizable. The aircraft should have dark green and brown patches at least to delete the red stars on the wings (usually present on all-green MiGs) and Rumanian crosses over them.

photo from Aeromagazin Romania, July 2002