hello,
can you add more info about this plane lost?:
50 Yak-6 built by Factory No. 464 at Moscow-Tushino (relocated to Dolgoprudny jul43) from 1942 (2) to 1943; 48)
Three additional aircraft were built in the form of spare parts. The construction number consisted of the factory code (64 for Factory No. 464), the two-digit batch number
(01 to 05) and the two-digit sequential number.
64 01 07 CCCP-I497 Yak-6 NKAP - 6 GU rgd 29mar43 line # 07; w/o jul43 on a flight from Volovo to Stary Oskol when possibly deviated in the direction of the front due to magnetic anomalies and was shot down by the Germans, both crew members (pilot: Krivolapov) and the sole passenger missing presumed killed
shot down by AA??....
https://www.airhistory.net/files/st/yakovlev.pdf
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