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| Date: | Wednesday 13 August 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 163 IAP Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | - |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Starostelye Airfield, Smolensk Oblast -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Starostelye Airfield |
| Starostelye Airfield |
On 13 August 1941 Yak-1 of 163 IAP crashed on take-off from Starostelye Airfield, Smolensk Oblast.
Ml/Lt Petr Petrovich Sokolov was killed.
Sources:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/163-й_истребительный_авиационный_полк
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memorial-chelovek_donesenie52370722/
https://obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=52370722
http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=16643
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Jan-2021 12:49 | JF | Added |
| 19-Oct-2022 12:27 | JF | Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative, ] |
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