Registration / Serial:23 white
Aircraft Original Type:Curtiss P-40 Hawk
Aircraft Generic Type:Curtiss P-40 Hawk/Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk
Aircraft Version:Curtiss P-40M Kittyhawk Mk.III
C/n (msn):27613
Operator Titles:Soviet Union - Air Force
City / Area:Michurinskoye Ozero [ Off-Airport ]Map
Country:Russia
Photo Date:31 December 1943
Photo from:Juhani Sipilä CollectionContact
Photo ID:425133Submit Correction
View count: 692
Made a forced landing on the ice of Lake Valkjärvi (Karelian isthmus) on 27-Dec-1943. This was Finnish territory at the time but is now in Russia and named Michurinskoye Ozero. The aircraft was recovered by the Finns and became KH-51 in Finnish service. This was built as USAAF 43-5925 for delivery to the RAF as FS192, but instead was diverted to the Soviet Union. Photo: SA-kuva (Finnish Armed Forces photograph, Wartime Photograph Archive). Photographer Feldhoff.
Registration / Serial:23 white
Aircraft Version:Curtiss P-40M Kittyhawk Mk.III
C/n (msn):27613
Operator Titles:Soviet Union - Air Force
City / Area:Michurinskoye Ozero [ Off-Airport ]Map
Country:Russia
Photo Date:31 December 1943
Photo from:Juhani Sipilä CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:23 white
Aircraft Original Type:Curtiss P-40 Hawk
Aircraft Generic Type:Curtiss P-40 Hawk/Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk
Aircraft Version:Curtiss P-40M Kittyhawk Mk.III
C/n (msn):27613
Operator Titles:Soviet Union - Air Force
City / Area:Michurinskoye Ozero [ Off-Airport ]Map
Country:Russia
Photo Date:31 December 1943
Photo from:Juhani Sipilä CollectionContact
Photo ID:425133Submit Correction
View count: 692
Made a forced landing on the ice of Lake Valkjärvi (Karelian isthmus) on 27-Dec-1943. This was Finnish territory at the time but is now in Russia and named Michurinskoye Ozero. The aircraft was recovered by the Finns and became KH-51 in Finnish service. This was built as USAAF 43-5925 for delivery to the RAF as FS192, but instead was diverted to the Soviet Union. Photo: SA-kuva (Finnish Armed Forces photograph, Wartime Photograph Archive). Photographer Feldhoff.
Registration / Serial:23 white
Aircraft Version:Curtiss P-40M Kittyhawk Mk.III
C/n (msn):27613
Operator Titles:Soviet Union - Air Force
City / Area:Michurinskoye Ozero [ Off-Airport ]Map
Country:Russia
Photo Date:31 December 1943
Photo from:Juhani Sipilä CollectionContact