Warplanes of the Second World War, Russian Lavochkin fighters, Polikarpov biplanes, and Yak fighters preserved in the UK

Russian aircraft of the Second World War preserved in the UK.

(Soviet Air Force Photo)

Lavochkin La-11.

(Soviet Air Force Photo)

Lavochkin La-11.

(Swedish Nationaal Archief Photo)

Lavochkin La-7 crash in Sweden in 1949, by a defecting Soviet pilot.

Lavochkin La-11 (Serial No. 20), The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

(Tim Felce Photo)

(Roland Turner Photo)

(Allan Wilson Photos)

(Alec Wilson Photo)

Polikarpov Po-2 Mule (Serial No. 9), Reg. No. ZK-POZ, The Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire.

(Yak-1 recovery team Photo, 1999)

Yakovlev Yak-1 (Serial No. 1342), Reg. No. G-BTZD, recovered from a lake in ca 1989, Historic Aircraft Collection, Sussex.

(SDA&SM Photo)

(Soviet Air Force Photo)

Yakovlev Yak-3UA (Serial No. 5), Reg. No. D-FYGJ, Privately owned, Sleap, Shropshire.

Yakovlev Yak-3, Reg. No. G-CDBJ, one of 19 new-build aircraft manufactured by the Strela Aircraft Company in Russia in 2003.  Aero Legends, North Weald.

(Soviet Air Force Photos)

Yak-9D formation flight, USSR, ca 1945.

Yakovlev Yak-9UA (Serial No. 21), Reg. No. RA3364K, Privately owned, Headcorn, Kent.

Yakovlev Yak-9 (Serial No. TBC), Reg. No. G-YAKP, Privately owned, London.

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