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    Airframe Family: Yakovlev Yak-3
    Latest Model:Yak-3
    Last Military Serial:25 white VVS
    Compressed ID:Yakovlev Yak-3 sn 25 white VVS
    Latest Owner or Location:Musee Air and Space, San Jose, San Jose, Ile-de-France

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    Dates

    Event

    From Circa 1943 to Circa 1945

    Constructed as a Yak-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily with s/n 25 white.

    Transferred to French Normandie-Niemen Squadron, Russian Front.

    20 June 1945

    Ferry flight.
    NNS Yak-3Us ferried to Paris.

    1948


    Photographer: BRUNETON Michel
    Notes: Scan to originale photo. It is this plane in memorial Normandie-Niemen in MAE Le Bourget France

    1950

    Disassembled.
    Scrapped at a French air base.

    Restored.
    Assembled as a composite from components in a scrapyard. The work was carried out by Squadron pilot Constantin Feldzer for donation to the museum.

    From 1950 to 1960

    To Musee de lAir, Chalais-Meudon.

    Markings Applied: 18
    Displayed in a Soviet Air Force NNS colour scheme.

    1970

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Musee Air and Space, San Jose, San Jose, Ile-De-France.
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    1976

    Markings Applied: 4 white
    Repainted as a Normandie-Niemen Soviet Air Force airframe.

    2010


    Photographer: Andy West

    21 September 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Dugny, France

    20 May 2017


    Photographer: BRUNETON Michel
    Notes: In new memorial Normandie-Niemen in Musee Aviation et Espace Le Bourget - France

    20 May 2017


    Photographer: BRUNETON Michel
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    John R. Page
    Andy West
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