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Date: | Sunday 22 August 1937 |
Time: | |
Type: | Polikarpov I-16 |
Owner/operator: | Fuerzas Aereas Republica Española (FARE) |
Registration: | Unknown |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Over Santander -
Spain
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:1.Shot down by Fw. Norbert Flegel during Spanish Civil War.
2.Flegel (2.J/88) flying Bf-109.
3.Three pilots were shot down that day flying I-16:Soviet Boris Smirnov "Pligunov" CO of the "Escuadrilla Vasca de Moscas" who was technically shot down as he reached the La Albericia airfield, hit, and made a turnover, no injured. Sergeant Eduardo Fernández Prada who was wounded, and Sergeant Eloy González Obarro who survived ininjured
Sources:
1.http://www.luftwaffe.cz/spanishcw.html
2.Revista Aeroplano Nº 39 "Eduardo Fernandez Prada, un ignorado piloto de Mosca"
Raquel Fernandez García Pag 77
IHCA 2021
3.Osprey Publishing Aircraft of the Aces 99 "Aces of the Legion Condor"
Robert Forsyth pag 78
4.Revista Aeroplano Nº 8 "Los chatos en España (II) - La Escuadrilla "Vasca""
Estanislao Abellán Agius Pag 62
IHCA 1990
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jan-2022 17:50 |
volman |
Updated [Registration, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |
12-Jan-2022 18:51 |
volman |
Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
17-Jan-2022 18:11 |
volman |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |