ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 193089
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Date: | Friday 26 January 1940 |
Time: | 15:40 |
Type: | Fokker C.X |
Owner/operator: | LLv 10 Suomen ilmavoimat |
Registration: | FK-81 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Uuksu area -
Finland
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On 26 January 1940 the Fokker C.X FK-81 from LLv 10 was lost on a reconnaissance mission north of Lake Ladoga. It was shot down in Uuksu area at 1540 hrs by an I-153 of 49 IAP flown by Starshiy Leytenant Vladimir Nikolayevich Peshkov, who claimed it as his first individual victory (he took part in two group victories four days earlier). The pilot 35-year-old lentomestari Toivo Heilä and observer 28-year-old luutnatti Reino Kullervo Vaittinen were both killed. This plane was never found.
Sources:
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/soviet_peshkov.htm http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww15/b/194/78/0 http://www.oocities.org/finnmilpge/fmp_faf_losses39_41.html https://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-4244370&fid=5536&c=russia Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jan-2017 09:30 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
16-Feb-2021 18:02 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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