captured yellow 32
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This example was captured by Germans, probably during the late summer 1941. The photo shows it with panels removed, broken trasparent panels, removed wing outer panels, removed sliding canopy, bullet holes and bended propeller blades; probably it had to land on enemy controlled ground due to war damage. 
It is loaded on a train car.
The photo shows clearly that it is camouflaged, and the side stars.
This image is strange because the aircraft's uppersurfaces appear light and less camo details are distinguishable.
Here we see clearly a black band on the spinner, the absence of the radio mast hole on the bended nose panel and some dark bands on the landing gear door.
Its characteristics look to be: 
  • late model, probably with slats;
  • without  radio and radio mast;
  • apparently without the sliding canopy (it's not clear if it was flown so, or it was lost during the recovery);
  • inert gas pipe on the left exhaust stack;
  • camouflaged green and dark green with light blue undersurfaces;
  • yellow (or light blue? or...) number 32, freehand painted (perhaps airbrushed), overposed to the fuselage star; the shape of the number is slightly different from right side to left side;
  • red painted trim on fuselage and, perhaps, on the right elevator;
  • green spinner with a black band;
  • black propeller blades;
  • black sprayed stripes (or smoke traces?) on the main gear door.
According to researches of Erik Pilawskii, the camo scheme shown on the right is typical of green/ dark green camouflaged aircrafts, adapted to what is visible on the photos.
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