UT-2M red 20-3 of VVS

Updated on February 4, 2014

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Drawing by Tapani Tuomanen

A UT-2M photgraphed in 1943 or later, presumably on a flight school.

The painting is of difficult interpretation; it doesn't resemble to the black-green pattern known on other UT-2; it fits better with the templates of 1943 prescribing a green-light brown-dark grey camouflage, that is more adequate for the period.

The band on fuselage was supposed white, as the number 3 on the tai (that, according to other interpretations, has a red inside), while the wide '20' is probably red. The nose panels look lighter; this could be due to a light brown blotch (not prescribed on that position by the NKAP templates) or could be due to red nose planels, just as those of the earlier UT-2.