I-16 type 24

[Zak]

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Number 29 

I-16 Type 24 of Snr Lt Nikolay Terekhin, 161st lAP,

Belorussian Front, USSR, summer 1941

A squadron commander with 161st lAP in June 1941, Terekhln was an ace who flew 250 combat sorties and scored a total of 17 victories. On 10 July 1941, while flying this 1-16, he shot down a Ju 88 over Mogilev and destroyed another bomber by ramming it. Indeed, three of Terekhln's first six victories were achieved via Taran attacks.

 

 

Number 30 

I-16 Type of Snt Lt Vasiliy Golubev, 7th lAP, Leningrad Front, USSR, summer 1941

This aircraft has had its standard green camouflage scheme partially painted over with black paint to make the fighter less conspicuous when viewed from above - VVS RKKA aircraft tended to be flown at considerably lower altitudes than their Luftwaffe counterparts. This modification was officially introduced lust days prior to the German invasion on 22 June

1941. Aside from the camouflage modification, the application of national markings also changed so that red stars were

applied to the underside of the left wing, fuselage sides and tailfin only. This particular machine also bore the tactical

number '13', which was actually considered to be lucky by some Soviet fighter pilots. Baltic ace Vasilly Golubev was not

one of them, however, and he soon had the number changed to 33.

 

 

Number 31

I-16 Type 24 Snr Lt Anatoliy Lomakin, 21st lAP, Baltic Sea Air Force, Leningrad Front, USSR, 1942-43

The non-standard shape of the red star on this aircraft's vertical tall is noteworthy. Snr Lt Lomakln was a late starter with the 1-16, having been posted to 21st lAP in March 1942 after completing his flying training. FlyingiIn defense of Leningrad, he found himself in the thick of the action. Lomakln's most notable success came almost a year later on

23 February 1943 when he claimed two Fw 190s destroyed with RS-82 rockets. His regiment finally began to receive

Yak-l s shortly after this clash, although Lomakln continued to fly the 1-16 well Into the summer of that year. By September 1943 he had completed 452 sorties and claimed seven victories during 49 aerial engagements. Made a Hero

of the Soviet Union on 21 January 1944, Lomakln was shot down and killed Just four days later. By then his tally stood at

seven Individual and 22 shared Victories.

 

 

 

Number 32
I-16 Type 24 of Snr Lt Gennadiy Tsokolaev, 4th GIAP, Baltic Fleet Air Force, Leningrad Front, USSR, February 1942

Unusually for the period, this fighter had light grey upper surfaces. Note also the Guards emblem on the starboard side of the fuselage. The aircraft was routinely flown by Hero of Soviet Union Snr Lt Tsokolaev, who was both a veteran of the

Winter War and an I-16 ace.

 

 

 

Number 33 

I-16 Type 24 of Lt Krichevskiy, 254th lAP, Budogoshch, near Leningrad, USSR, 1943

The five stars painted just behind the cockpit on this machine represent a rare case of a personal scoreboard being applied to a Polikarpov fighter. Such markings became commonplace on Soviet fighters from late 1942 on wards, but were not often seen on I-153s or I-16s. The unusual appearance of this aircraft - mixed versions of the national marking, non-standard numbering and a Victory tally - has been confirmed by photographic evidence, although no further

information about it's assigned pilot, Lt Krichevskly, or his Victories, has so far come to light.

 

 

 

Number 34

I-16 Type 24 of Sgt Grigoriy Guryanov, 4th GIAP, Baltic Fleet Air Force, Leningrad Front, USSR, spring 1942

A temporary white winter camouflage scheme using Iimebased paint has been applied to this aircraft, which was flown by Sgt (later Snr Lt) Grigoriy Guryanov. Prior to switching to the vastly superior La-5 In 1943, he scored four Individual and three shared Victories with the I-16 out of a total of seven individual and three shared kills. Guryanov perished on 25 August 1944 when his fighter was brought down by anti-aircraft artillery.

 

 

Number 35 

I-16 Type 24 of 13th OIAE, Baltic Fleet Air Force, Nizino, USSR, summer 1940

This aircraft displays the standard green/light blue camouflage finish seen on all VVS RKKA fighters pre-June 1941, but the markings on ItS tall could possibly identify it as being he mount of a Unit commander.

 

 

Source : Aircraft of Aces Issue 95 - Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces by Mikhail Masloy, Osprey Publishing

Edited May 21, 2015 by =LD=Hiromachi

[LukeFF]

 “6 White”. 55th IAP (Fighter Regiment), Beltsy airfield, July 1941:

 

"Yellow 4," 45th Fighter Division, Odessa, June 1941:

 

“White 2″, 282nd IAP, South-Western Front, February 1942: 

 

Mladshiy Leytenant Ivan Bratushko, 286 IAP, Leningrad - Lake Ladoga area, Summer 1942:

 

[LukeFF]

Boris Safonov, 72 SAP Northern Fleet, 1941:

 

 

 

 

 

[KaC_Furias]

Winter:

 

[HR_Pingu]

 

Those were the colours of the "Mosca" flew in the Spanish civil war by the ace José María Bravo of the 3ª escuadrilla. It's a photo because its a real plane! You can watch it fly at an air shows in Madrid, Spain.

 

http://fio.es/POLIKARPOV_I_16.html

 

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/polikarpov-i-16-rata-air-to-air.html (in english)

[LukeFF]

Lt.G.G.Gurjakov, Baltic Fleet, Leningrad, Winter 1941 - Spring 1942

 

 

Edited May 23, 2015 by LukeFF

[LukeFF]

13th Independent Aviation Squadron, Summer 1941:

 

CO of 69th IAP Lev Shestakov. Odessa, Summer 1941:

 

S.Surjenko. Murmansk area. August admittedly 1941:

 

 

Alternative interpretation of this scheme:

 

 

White 31, 1943:

 

Edited May 23, 2015 by LukeFF

[KaC_Furias]

Los Popeyes :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and Bety Boop:

 

Edited May 29, 2015 by Furias

[Jaws2002]

Captured by Romanians:

 

 

 

together with the captured Mig-3

 

Edited May 31, 2015 by Jaws2002

[Zak]

Thank you gentlemen! There a lot of nice ideas here, enough for us to make the final list. Later I'll post it here. Topic closed.