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 |