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| Date: | Saturday 17 April 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-7 |
| Owner/operator: | 519 IAP Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | Dankov Airfield, Lipetsk Oblast -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dankov Airfield |
| Dankov Airfield |
Yak-7 of 510 IAP crashed on take-off from Dankov Airfield. Squadron Commander Captain Ivan Avdeevich Avekov was killed.
He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 August 1943.
Sources:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авеков,_Иван_Авдеевич
https://obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=73823993
https://obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=52839475
https://obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=84403161
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Nov-2020 08:40 | JF | Added |
| 03-Nov-2021 15:52 | JF | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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