(Lavochkin) La-5FN
A rugged and versatile Soviet fighter. A formidable opponent to all of its contemporaries at low altitudes. A second (the first being the La-5F) modification of the La-5 variant, produced in 1943 and 1944, with 4817 machines built in total. Read More
(The planes below are not arranged in any particular order. To find out more about each airplane, please click on them)
Lyubenyuk’s White-07
813-th IAP (Osowiecskiy), 215-th IAD, 8-th IAK, 4-th Air Army, 2-nd Belorussian Front. circa Spring 1945
Flown by Yuriy Mikhailovich Lyubenyuk.
Evstigneev’s White-14
178 GIAP (240 IAP), circa late 1944.
Flown by the two times Hero Of the Soviet Union (number 5 top Allied fighter Ace), guards-captain Kirill Alekseevich Evstigneev.
“Mongolskiy Arat” White-70
2-nd Fighter Squadron, 2-nd GIAP, (MONGOLSKIY ARAT regiment), 322 IAD, Eastern Front, circa late 1943.
Lobanov’s White-30
41 GIAP (Chernovitskiy) Regiment, of the order of Kutuzov, Western Ukraine, circa 1944.
Flown by the Hero of the Soviet Union, Fighter Ace, Alexander Vasilievich Lobanov.
Trefilov’s White-44
2nd Squadron, 523 IAP of 303 IAD, 3-rd Belorussian Front, Lithuania, 1944. Flown by Anatoliy Panteleevich Trefilov.
Abramov’s White-(9?)3, “Penzenskiy Komsomolets”
10-th GIAP of the order of the Red Banner, 1 GIAD, Baltic Fleet VVS , circa late July 1944, presumably western Leningrad oblast’ , Russia.
Flown by the hero of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Fedorovich Abramov
Vishnyakov’s White-76 “Za Olega Koshevogo”
1-st Squadron (‘Oleg Koshevoy’ squadron), 171-st ‘Tulskiy’ IAP, 315-th IAD, 14-th IAK, 15-th Air Army, 2-nd Prebaltic Front, circa beginning of 1944, and August of 1944.
Flown by the commander of the 1-st squadron, (future)Hero of the Soviet Union, (future)General-major, Ivan Alekseevich Vishnyakov, Ace with (future) 20-23 victories, depending on the source.
“Captured White-21” / “T9+PK”
(As “Captured White-21”), Rechlin, Germany (Prussia), late September 1944. Flown by a Luftwaffe test pilot, Hans-Werner Lerche.
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(As “T9+PK”) 2./Versuchsverband OKL (Wanderzirkus Rosarius), Stendal, April 1945, Germany.
Vendl’s “White-23” / Czech “(Yellow?)-23”,
Antonin Vendl’s White-23
1st Czechoslovak Independent Fighter Regiment, 2nd Air Army, 1st Ukrainian Front, Soviet VVS, Zolna/Tri Duby , September/October 1944. Slovak National Uprising.
Flown by ppor. Antonin Vendl, and others, including ppor. František Štička and šrtm. Anton Matušek.
Yellow(?)-23
2. stíhací letecký pluk, 4. smíšená letecká divize, Czechoslovak Air Force, Piešťany airfield, February, 1946.
Flown by various pilots of the Czechoslovak airforce, including rtm. Michal Jánoš
“WHITE-79 / IW-6”,
Airplane serial number 39213479, Engine serial number 82134364, Czech (re-registered) inventory number La5-3459 [1]
1. letka, 1. pluk, 4. letecka divize, Czechoslovak Air Force, Piešťany airfield, late August, 1946.
Flown by -unknown.