Can anybody help please with construction numbers for the following?
1-15: RA-0281G (23 red)
1-153: RA-1562G (10 red)
PO2: RA-0130G (1 blue)
PO2: RA-0524G (2 yellow)
PO2: RA-0790G (65 white)
All seen at Zhukovsky on 12 August 2012.
Some may be replicas of course, and so any histories would also be much appreciated. For example, is RA-1562G ex ZK-JJB?
Any help will be much appreciated.
George
By: George Maybury - 28th February 2013 at 07:15
Thank you very much to all who responded. All your comments were helpful and I now know far more than when I first wrote.
Cheers,
George
By: G-ANPK - 27th February 2013 at 20:58
George
RA-1562G S/N 6326
RA-0130G S/N 0102
RA-0790G S/N 0103
hth
G-ANPK
By: Zac Yates - 27th February 2013 at 20:52
And to be even more anal, the last two “I-153″s are in fact one I-15bis! I-153 has retractable undercarriage and gull top wing, I-15 and I-15bis are fixed-gear but the I-15bis has a straight upper wing as seen here. Jerry Yagen has another example in the US.
White 19 has been quoted as c/n02089 and Red 23 as 1603K.
The Alpine Fighter Collection’s Chaika were ZK-JKN/Red16/cn6316 (now N153RP with Jerry Yagen), JKM/White75/cn7027 (resident in Spain) and JJB/Red10/cn6326. This last one is now RA-1562G 😉
By: George Maybury - 27th February 2013 at 19:41
Many thanks NII VVS. Every bit of information is gratefully received.
Cheers,
George
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th February 2013 at 19:10
All of the Polikarpovs built by Aviarestoration (e.g. all of these listed above) are somewhat like the currently mooted “data plate special” Spitfire restorations we see, in that the vast majority of the material in the aircraft is of modern manufacture, but that a main identity is associated with an original machine via a specific manufacturer’s Production Number (from a data plate).
I do know some of the main identities associated with the various I-16s which A-R have built, but alas I am not familiar with those for the I-152s and I-153s. However, if one could make contact with whomever now runs what is left of the Alpine Fighter Collection (NZ), they would surely have this information.
As for the various Po-2s (or, you may call them U-2s if you wish)… again, I do not know.
By: George Maybury - 27th February 2013 at 15:01
Many thanks Ken. “Anal” maybe, but as you say, best to get it right: it all helps.
Cheers,
George
By: Flanker_man - 27th February 2013 at 11:46
I can’t help with the con numbers, but in the interests of accuracy it is I-15 and I-153 (for ‘Istrebitel’ – ‘Fighter’) and not 1-15, 1-153.
…. and to be really nit-picky, it’s Po-2 (for the designer Polikarpov) not PO-2.
A bit anal, I know – but it helps to get it right.
And just by way of contrition, here are some pics I took of the said aircraft…
Po-2 Yellow 2….
Red 23 is actually an I-152 DIT two-seat trainer…..
White 65…. and Blue 1….
White 65 on its own……
I-153…. (might be White 19)…
Definitely White 19 …..
Ken
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