(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)

Anton Petrov 12/10/20 Anton Petrov 12/10/20

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.

Anton Petrov 12/9/20 Anton Petrov 12/9/20

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.

Anton Petrov 10/22/20 Anton Petrov 10/22/20

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.

Anton Petrov 10/13/20 Anton Petrov 10/13/20

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

Anton Petrov 10/9/20 Anton Petrov 10/9/20

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.