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Bell P-39Q side view

Bell P-39Q

Bell P-39Q-15 Airacobra «21 White» / 44-2498 of the Command Flight of the 72nd GvIAP (Guards Fighter Regiment) was the personal mount of regiment CO P.F. Zavarookhin

Mikoyan MiG-3 on slideshow

Mikoyan MiG-3

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-3 «02 Red» with the legend Za Stalina! (For Stalin!). 148th IAP (Fighter Regiment)/1st Sqn, Khar’kov battle, May 1942

Mil’ Mi-24P on slideshow

Mil' Mi-24P

Mil’ Mi-24P «01», dubbed Tooz (Ace); note the ace of spades. Chechnya, Joint Air Group, late July 2000

Supermarine Spitfire on slideshow

Supermarine Spitfire

Supermarine Spitfire F. Mk IXE «2 Red» operated by the 19th IAP of the Air Defence Force, Vas’kovo airfield near Arkhangel’sk, the autumn of 1948

Airbus A310 on slideshow

Airbus A310

Airbus A310 «Glinka» F-OGQS (c/n 596) Aeroflot’s first aircraft with the new-look livery. This aircraft crashed near Novokuznetsk (Russia) on March 22, 1994

Kamov Ka-27PL side view

Kamov Ka-27PL

Kamov Ka-27PL «22 Yellow», 872nd OPLVP (Independent ASW Helicopter Regt), Kacha AB, the Crimea, March 2001


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