The Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) operated about 90 Russian-built aircraft during the Second World War. Although some were captured during the Winter War, most were delivered from captured German stocks during 1941-1944. With the exception of the P-40M and the Hurricane IIA, most of the aircraft types listed below were either operated by the Ilmavoimat as front-line aircraft, issued to training units or evaluated.

Types used included;

24 Tupolev SB-2s, most of which were used on anti-shipping ops. Three Russian subs and five other ships claimed as sunk.
11 Ilyushin DB-3Ms,
Four Ilyushin Il-4 (aka DB-3F),
Five Petlyakov Pe-2s,
One Petlyakov Pe-3,
Five Polikarpov I-15bis (aka I-152, only used as advanced trainers),
21 Polikarpov I-153s, (One Finnish I-153 pilot shot down a Russian I-153!)
Two Polikarpov I-16s, (only evaluated, at least one was sent to Germany),
Three LaGG-3s,
One Curtiss P-40M, (s/n 43-9438 was captured in December 1943),
One Hawker Hurricane IIA (plus two more that weren’t restored to airworthiness),
Four Polikarpov U-2s, (One is preserved at the Finnish Air Force Museum)
One Polikarpov UTI-4, (Two-seat training version of the I-16, preserved at Helsinki),
Five Beriev MBR-2/-2bis (flying boat, used for coastal patrol duties)
Two Shavrov Sh-2s.

Regards,

Jan