This profile represents an aircraft of an unknown unit, that made a forced landing. The photo is extremely similar to that of another aircraft yellow 5, and this could be misleading. Despite being of good photographic quality, the image is of difficult interpretation because of some unusual characteristic of the aircraft, that appears to have been partially repainted and repaired with pieces of different planes.

 

Observing carefully the photo, one can see (or think to see): it is a late type, with slats; the fuselage, tail and wingroots appear to have an uniform shade, and the demarcation line between green and light blue is unusually low and soft; probably they were repainted green after a repair;  some traces of the previous painting could seem visible on the fuselage and wingroots; a small red star is visible on the tail, and a digit 5, probably yellow or light blue, is partially overposed to it; camo bands are visible on the outer wing panel and on the upper engine cowling (piece on the ground); it is without radio mast, wire and other visible radio devices; the tail wheel doors are of early type, from another aircraft by sure; the oil cooler intake lip is unpainted; the same for a coil covering the slot between engine cowling and spinner; the propeller blades look unusually painted, possibly green on the front face, black and aluminium on the back, and perhaps with yellow tips; the drawing on the right shows the most likely look of the plane from above.

 

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