Updated on March 30, 2005
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This aircraft was of Lieutnant I.F.Golubin of 16 IAP, Moscow area, winter 1941/42.
Golubin was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union on March 4, 1942. He scored
12 victories before being killed in action in october 1943.
The characteristics of the aircraft are:
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short nosed with slats;
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equipped with rocket rails;
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white uppersurfaces, with traces of fading off;
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light blue undersurfaces, with slightly unusual demarcation line;
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spinner partially painted red;
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fuselage star aligned with upper fuselage profile and probably with black
outline;
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equipped with radio;
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there is a metal stripe to cover the gap behind the spinner;
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probably no any code painted.