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    Airframe Family: Polikarpov I-15 / I-153
    Latest Model:I-15bis
    Construction Number:4439
    Last Civil Registration:FLARF-02089
    Compressed ID:Polikarpov I-15bis cn 4439 cr FLARF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an I-15bis.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily.

    Mostly new build by Aviarestoration, Moscow. Crashed Karelia region, Northern Russia 1943. Some small original parts recovered from crash site in mid-1990s.

    To unknown owner with c/r FLARF-02089.

    10 July 2004


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw

    11 July 2005


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: Photograph at Flying Legends 2005, Duxford England. Aircraft possibly based at Duxford 2004 to 2007

    20 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Duxford, UK

    29 August 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Zhukovsky, Russia
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