This profile represents the aircraft of captain A.A. Lipilin, 41 IAP, that shot
down a German reconaissance aircraft at an altitude of 8000 m on July 27, 1941,
on the Moscow front.
The photo shows only a small portion of the aircraft; some details are hypothetical.
it is a short-nosed example (as one can see from the tail wheel doors),
with radio devices and probably without slats;
there is a white 5 and a small round on the tail; there looks to be a red
11 painted over it; a large 0 is on low position, and the star is unusually
small;
there was probably a red star painted on the fuselage (as on nearly all
the MiGs) without further numbers (there are already too many ones on the
tail);
the black camo bands look unusually soft, but the overall scheme looks
similar to one seen on photos of many other MiGs; it could be field painted,
on the all green background typical of early MiGs (this could justify the
unusually small tail star as painted on the field too; the first examples
had no tail stars; the factory camouflaged aircrafts had a far larger star);
hand brush painting is visible on the fuselage side;
the spinner is probably green, as on most examples;
the blades were probably unpainted (alluminium) with the rear surface partially
painted black, as standard.
The aircraft bears a green/black camouflage; where not visible on the
photo, it was drawn on the base of a similar scheme drawn by Erik Pilawskii.
