Date:	Sunday 17 January 1943
Time:
Type:	Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2
Owner/operator:	7./JG 54 Luftwaffe
Registration:	13801
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Izocha airfield, 15 km NE Nevel -   Russia
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Izocha airfield

Narrative:
On 17 January 1943 the Bf 109 G-2 WNr 13801 of 7./JG 54 was damaged beyond repair (at 60%) when it collided with an obstacle on landing on Izocha airfield (written Isotscha in German loss report). The pilot, Uffz Emil Billeter, was unhurt.

Izocha airfield was a hastily improvised and little-used field airstrip (Feldflugplatz) in NW Russia 15 km NE Nevel and 2-3 km NE of the village of Trushkovo and along a railway line at the north end of Ozero (lake) Bol’shoy Ivan. In fact it doesn’t seem to have been used at all other than during that January - February 1943 period, mainly by elements of Stab, I. and IV./JG 51.

1.JG 54 loss list, by Günther Rosipal
2.http://www.jg54greenhearts.com/LossList.htm)
3.http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=19392
4.http://www.getamap.net/maps/russia/pskovskaya_oblast/_izocha/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Jan-2017 18:36	Laurent Rizzotti	Added
24-Mar-2020 14:51	DB	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Operator]