Accident Yakovlev Yak-7 ,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244775
 
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Date:Saturday 17 April 1943
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic yak7 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Yakovlev Yak-7
Owner/operator:519 IAP Soviet Air Force
Registration:
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Unknown
Location:Dankov Airfield, Lipetsk Oblast -   Russia
Phase: Take off
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Dankov Airfield
Destination airport:Dankov Airfield
Narrative:
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/timeContributorUpdates
10-Nov-2020 08:40 JF Added
03-Nov-2021 15:52 JF Updated [Narrative]

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