The search engines found a plane from the wwii times. WWII aircraft found in the Murmansk region

On an islet among the swamps in the Novgorod region, the search engines accidentally found a combat aircraft that has been preserved since the Great Patriotic War in almost perfect condition. The location of the aircraft is kept in the strictest confidence, since the combat vehicle is of great interest to "black diggers": in the smuggled market, the artifact can cost 500 thousand dollars.

In the Novgorod region, a combat aircraft from the times of the Great Patriotic War was found, which has been preserved almost in its original form. The location of the unique find is kept in the strictest confidence: such an aircraft is of great interest to "black diggers", since it costs half a million dollars on the smuggled market.

The plane - presumably a single-engine Yak-1 - was lost for almost 70 years in a swampy area. Despite this, the combat vehicle completely survived, its engine was not even damaged. This makes it possible to assume that the pilot was able to land the plane after his engine simply failed. In the cockpit, the search engines also found the remains of the pilot.

We deliberately keep the name of the area where the find was found secret. And we decided not to post publicly the photos that we managed to take where we found the military plane. Let me explain why. The combat vehicle is in almost perfect condition, only covered with moss. This find should remain in Russia, become an exhibit of one of the Russian museums military equipment and not leave our country. Now on the black market, where illegal diggers operate, such a find would be estimated at 500 thousand dollars.

The search engines transferred information about their find to the Synergy Center for Civil and Patriotic Education, which is located in Moscow. Its employees have already thrown a cry across Russia, inviting the best specialists to take part in the restoration work. It is assumed that the restoration of the military aircraft will take place in two stages, each of which will be very difficult.

The plane remains where it was found. The car is completely covered with moss, the search engines did not touch the plane so as not to damage the metal structures. It is known that he was not shot down - the plane's engine failed, and the pilot managed to land it. We can say with absolute certainty that there are only a few such finds all over the world. Most often, search engines manage to find fragments of any military equipment.

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Center for civic and patriotic education "Synergy" was created on the basis of the Moscow Financial and Industrial University with the aim of uniting educational process and a civil educational mission. The head of the center, Mikhail Kudinov, takes an active part in search expeditions, and university students and participants in the center - in restoration work.

According to Mikhail Kudinov, the process of work on the find will take place in two stages. The first stage will last until June 9, at which time the plane should be "unanchored" and relocated to a restoration workshop. The plans are to publicize the discovery of the aircraft and hand over his personal belongings to the relatives of the pilot.

We plan to attract one of the leading federal television channels to live to hand over to the relatives of the pilot, whose remains were found on the plane, his personal belongings. First, we will search for the pilot's family and hope that they will be crowned with success.

The second phase of the operation will run until June 22. The search engines will attract leading restorers of Russia, who have been restoring military equipment of the times of the Great Patriotic War for several years.

Many restorers have already expressed a desire to take part in the work. Russian specialists have an excellent reputation. For example, in the military melodrama Pearl Harbor, all the planes that we see on the screen were assembled literally out of nothing by Novosibirsk specialists. We also invited them to work on the find - the Yak-1 aircraft. Unique craftsmen are ready to restore the car to the point that it can be flown.

Expert opinion

historian, Veliky Novgorod

- The Yak-1 was developed in the design bureau A.S. Yakovlev as a front-line fighter, had a lightweight design due to a small supply of fuel and weakened weapons. It was put into service in 1940. By the beginning of the war, there were about 800 Yak-1s in the Red Army Air Force units. The aircraft was equipped with an M-105PA engine with a maximum power of 1100 horsepower, had a practical range of 650 kilometers, armament consisted of one 20-mm ShVAK cannon and two 7.62-mm ShKAS machine guns installed in the nose of the aircraft. Most of the fighters were lost in the first weeks of the war.

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Historical finds of the center "Synergy"

In the period from 1945 to the present day, parts of that very bloody war, the war for human ideals, are found all over the earth. Summer residents find unexploded shells, grenades and mines in their gardens. Search parties, divers, fishermen and simple mushroom pickers find tanks and planes. Let's remember what was found and raised.

Aircraft P-39Q-15 "Airacobra", serial number 44-2911 was discovered at the bottom of Lake Mart-Yavr (Murmansk region) in 2004. The fighter was spotted by a fisherman, who reported that he saw through the water, on a muddy bottom, the outline of the plane's tail. When the plane was lifted from the bottom of the lake, it turned out that both cockpit doors were blocked, although usually, on a hard landing, one or both were thrown back to give the pilot an exit. Presumably, the pilot could have died immediately from the strongest impact of the aircraft on the bottom or from the flooding of the cockpit.

The found remains were buried with all the honors on the Avenue of Glory in Murmansk.

The wing-mounted 12.7 mm machine guns on the aircraft were dismantled. The fuselage armament and 37-mm motor-gun of the Colt-Browning M4 have not undergone any modifications.

Stocks of ammunition and stew were also found inside the cabin. In a separate case were found, heavily washed out by water, a flight book and other documents.

The aircraft was built in 1939 and fought in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain before entering the Eastern Front. On April 4, 1942, the German fighter ace Wolf Dietrich Wilcke, piloting this plane, was shot down and forced to land on a frozen lake. Wilke escaped death. The plane remained almost unscathed after a nearly perfect emergency landing until it dived to the bottom of the lake. There, it remained untouched for more than six decades, until it was finally raised in 2003. Countless bullet holes located on the aircraft's wings and on the horizontal stabilizers were one of the main causes of the plane's crash, but one large hole in the right wing attachment point may have been what killed the fighter.

Brewster F2A Buffalo - BW-372. The plane was found in Lake Bolshoye Kaliyarvi at a depth of 15 meters in a depression in the middle of the lake. The underwater environment was ideal for preserving the machine. The fighter, which had been lying at the bottom of the lake for 56 years, completely plunged into the silt, this slowed down the corrosion process, but became an obstacle during the ascent, complicating the separation from the bottom. Its pilot, the Finnish fighter ace Lauri Pekuri, was shot down on June 25, 1942 during a battle with pilots of the 609th IAP in an air battle over the Soviet airfield Segezha in the Murmansk region. Pecuri has already shot down two Russian aircraft before he was forced to land his own. The pilot left the injured Brewster and reached his position.

The F6F Hellcat crashed on the morning of January 5th in the last year of the war. Pilot Walter Elcock, sitting at the helm, lost control during a training flight, and together with the plane fell into the icy water of Michigan, but managed to swim out.

The only Dornier Do-17 bomber that has survived to this day was raised from the bottom of the English Channel. The aircraft was shot down during the Battle of Britain in 1940. This is one of the one and a half thousand, sharpened by Germany, and the only one that has survived to this day. The Dornier Do-17 stood out among its contemporary bombers for its high speed. It was originally designed as a fast reconnaissance aircraft, but was redesigned as a bomber in the mid-1930s. The plane tried to attack airfields in Essex. It was possible to restore the call signs of the raised aircraft - 5K-AR. The aircraft with these callsigns was shot down on August 26, 1940. The pilot and another crew member were captured and sent to a POW camp. Two other crew members were killed

The Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft was found by fishermen. The plane was relatively shallow. Apparently, the plane was badly damaged during the battle, it went under the water, breaking into pieces. Fortunately, the looters did not make it to the plane - evidence of this is the surviving remains of the pilot: no one got into the cockpit.

The front part and wing are well preserved. The aircraft's tail number could not be found, but the engine and propeller numbers were preserved. Using these numbers, they will try to establish the name of the pilot.

A B25 bomber lifted from the bottom of Murray Lake in South Carolina.

This P-40 "Kittyhawk" in 1942 fell three hundred kilometers from civilization, in the thick of the desert. Sergeant Dennis Copping took from crashed plane that little that could be useful to him, and went into the desert. Since that day, nothing has been known about the sergeant. Seventy years later, the plane was found almost intact. Even machine guns and ammunition for them, and most of the instruments in the cockpit, survived. The plates with the passport data of the car have survived, and this enables historians to restore the history of its service.

Focke-Wulf Fw-190 "Yellow-16" Designed by German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank, the Focke-Wulf Fw-190 "Würger" ("Strangler") "was one of the most successful fighters of the Second World War. Introduced in August 1941, it was popular with pilots and was flown by some of the Luftwaffe's finest fighter aces. During the war years, more than 20,000 of these aircraft were produced. Only 23 fully equipped aircraft have survived, and all of them are in various collections around the world. This remarkably preserved Fw-190 was recovered from the cold waters off the coast of the Norwegian island of Sotra, west of the city of Bergen.

In the Murmansk region, near the village of Safonovo-1, an Il-2 attack aircraft from the 46th ShAP of the Northern Fleet Air Force was raised from the bottom of Lake Krivoye. The plane was discovered in December 2011 in the middle of a lake at a depth of 17-20 meters. On November 25, 1943, due to damage received in an air battle, the Il-2 did not reach its airfield for about three kilometers and made an emergency landing on the frozen Lake Krivoye. Commander Junior Lieutenant Valentin Skopintsev and Red Navy air gunner Vladimir Gumyonny got out of the plane. After a while, the ice broke, and the attack aircraft went under water to reappear on the surface after 68 years.

Lake Krivoye turned out to be rich in aircraft found. A Yak-1 aircraft from the 20th IAP of the Northern Fleet Air Force was also raised from the bottom of the lake. On August 28, 1943, the fighter, during an overflight, made an emergency landing on the surface of the lake and sank. It was piloted by junior lieutenant Demidov. Today in the world there is only one Yak-1 out of more than 8000 built machines. This is the Yak-1B fighter of the Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Eremin, which was transferred to the pilot's homeland, to the local history museum of the city of Saratov. Thus, the raised Yak-1 fighter will be the second in the world today.

On a hot Monday morning, July 19, 1943, Feldwebel Paul Ratz sat in the cockpit of his Focke-Wulf Fw190A-5 / U3 WNr.1227, Belaya A from the 4./JG 54, took off from the Siverskaya airfield. The flight was carried out by a pair of Staffel cars, it was about 15 minutes of flight to the front line, crossing the front line on the Dvina River, the couple moved further east. In the Voybokalo area, planes attacked a Soviet armored train. During the attack, the car was damaged by air defense fire, one of the hits broke through the tank and the pilot was wounded. The pilot pulled to the base until the last, but having lost a lot of blood, he went for an emergency landing. The plane landed in a clearing in the middle of the forest, after landing the pilot died.

The Aviation Museum in Krakow carried out an operation to raise from the bottom of the Baltic Sea the wreckage of the American Douglas A-20 bomber, which sank during World War II. For the museum, this exhibit is a real treasure, since there are only 12 such aircraft left in the world.

Fighter Hawker Hurricane IIB "Trop", Z5252, airborne "white 01" from the Second Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Northern Air Force. Pilot Lieutenant P.P. Markov. On June 2, 1942, he made an emergency landing after a battle on a lake west of Murmansk. In 2004 it was raised from the bottom of the lake.

This fighter I-153 "Chaika" was lost near Vyborg on the last day of the Winter War.

The B-24D Liberator lies on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, where it made an emergency landing on December 9, 1942. This aircraft is one of the eight surviving Liberators in the "D" performance. He flew to conduct meteorological surveys when inclement weather prevented him from landing at any of the nearby airfields.

Junkers Ju-88. Spitsbergen. Early versions of the German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-88, which entered service in 1939, underwent many technical improvements during their development. But once they were eliminated, the twin-engined Ju-88 became one of the most versatile combat aircraft of World War II, serving in roles ranging from torpedo bomber to heavy reconnaissance fighter.

An IL-2 plane was lifted from the bottom of the Black Sea. Presumably, it was shot down in 1943, when there were fierce battles for Novorossiysk. Now the historical find has been delivered to Gelendzhik.

A German Ju 52 aircraft was lifted from the seabed by the staff of the Greek Air Force Museum on June 15, 2013. During the siege of the island of Leros in 1943, the plane was shot down by an anti-aircraft gun off the coast of the island. Since then he has been at the bottom Aegean for over 60 years, when local divers, with the help of the Greek Air Force War Museum, discovered it again.

The German military raised the remnants of the Nazi JU 87 Stuka bomber from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. On the this moment there are only two original copies of this military aircraft in the world, which are presented in museums in London and Chicago. Ju-87 "Stuka" was discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in the 1990s. However, work on raising the plane started much later. According to experts, the plane remained in good condition, despite the fact that it lay at the bottom of the sea for about 70 years.

The 70-year-old plane got lost in the impenetrable wilds of the forest somewhere on the border of the Pskov, Novgorod and Leningrad regions. A search party from Novgorod accidentally discovered it on a patch of land surrounded by swamps. By some miracle, the plane completely survived, but neither its history, nor the model, nor the fate of the pilot have yet been clarified. According to some indications, this is the Yak-1. The car is completely overgrown with moss, and the search engines do not touch it yet, fearing to damage the rarity. It is known that the plane was not shot down, its engine simply failed.

Curtiss-Wright P-40E airborne "white 51" from the 20th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. The pilot is junior lieutenant A.V. Pshenev. Shot down on June 1, 1942. The pilot made a landing on the lake. Found in 1997 at the bottom of Lake Code west of Murmansk.

The twin-engine long-range bomber - DB-3, later called the Il-4, was used as a long-range reconnaissance aircraft, torpedo bomber, mine layer, and a means of landing people and cargo. The last combat missions of the Il-4 were carried out on Far East during the war with Japan. It was found by searchers in the swamps of the Kola Peninsula.

Messerschmitt Bf109 G-2 / R6 B "Yellow 3"

German fighter Messerschmitt Bf109 G-2. which made a forced landing at sea near Nereus Norway on March 24, 1943. Was raised in 2010 from a depth of 67 meters.

Henkel He-115, lifted from the bottom in Norway.

The half-submerged Flying Fortress # 41-2446 has lain in Agaimbo Swamp Australia since 1942, where its captain Frederick Fred Eaton Jr. made an emergency landing after his plane was damaged by enemy fighters over Rabaul in Eastern New Britain. Despite several bullets, shattered plexiglass and bent propellers, the B-17E had barely corroded 70 years after hitting the ground.

This "Douglas SBD" Dauntless ", a veteran of the Battle of Midway, was raised from the waters of Lake Michigan in 1994. In June 1942, during a raid on Japanese aircraft carriers west of midway atoll The Undaunted was riddled with 219 bullets and was one of eight planes to return to base out of 16 departed. The aircraft returned to the United States for repairs, where it crashed during a training flight to the aircraft carrier Sable.

Half buried in an abandoned military airfield in the shadow of the mighty Mount Pagan volcano, the skeletal skeleton of the Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero is the remains of one of two Japanese aircraft that crashed on the western side of Pagan Island, part of the Mariana Islands.

Unfortunately, most of the aircraft found on the territory of Russia have long been sold abroad, where they were restored and put on the wing. It is a shame that we, even for a lot of money, gave into the wrong hands the valuable exhibits of that The great war... But even so, what would they have perished in the dark waters of lakes and swamps forever.

Found in the area of Lake Terskelyaur. Exported, whereabouts unknown

2. Stormtrooper IL-2 No. 305490 from the composition 17th Guards assault 261st air regiment assault air divisions

Pilot Deputy Air Regiment Commander Guards Major A.V. Kharitonov
The rifleman of the guards sergeant-major Mazurov M.N.
Shot down 11.10.1944 south of the Salmijärvi airfield during an assault on the airfield.
Set on fire by a direct hit. Fell and exploded. The remains of the crew are buried in Nikel.

3. IL-2

Found near Lake Chapr, near the Titovka River (engine, cannon, fuel tank, other parts)

4. Amphibious aircraft engine MBR-2 from the 118th reconnaissance regiment of the Northern Fleet Air Force.

Found in Gryaznaya Bay near the village. Safonovo in 2011.

5. Fighter MiG-3 head No. 3457 from the 147th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Pilot Colonel Mikhail Mikhailovich Golovnya, commander of the 147th IAP
On September 23, 1941, after an air battle, he made an emergency landing at Lake Nyalyavr. The pilot arrived at the unit.
Found 2000, refurbished in Novosibirsk, delivered Allison V-1710 engine, maiden flight 2007
Sold to the USA. Owner Jerry Yagen (Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach, USA)

You can read about the history of raising and restoring this MIG-3

6. MiG-3 head No. 4958 from the 147th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Lost 1941-42. After an emergency landing, equipment and weapons were removed from him. Found in 2000 in the Kandalaksha area. Renovated in 2005 in Novosibirsk, waiting for an engine ordered by a Russian buyer

7. The AM-35 engine of the MiG-3 fighter.

Raised from the bottom of a lake in the Murmansk region in winter 2001.

8. Seaplane MP-1

Found in the late 1980s. Exported to Taganrog to the manufacturing plant for exposure.

Presumably, in 1938, an international female record for the flight range on the route Sevastopol - Kiev - Novgorod - Arkhangelsk was set on it, having covered 2416 kilometers without landing in 10 hours. In the photo there is a "record" plane:

Skeleton:

Remains of the pilot:

9. Dive bomber Pe-2, head No. 6-95 from the 29th Bomber Sulinsky Aviation Regiment

Pilot Junior Lieutenant Ivlev Georgy Vasilyevich, navigator Sergeant Serebryakov Tomas Vasilyevich, gunner-radio operator Red Navy Anatoly Vasilyevich Filonenko.
On September 11, 1942, he was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery fire during an assault bombing strike at the Luostari airfield. The crew was killed. Found in the area of Lake Santayarvi (Pechenga). The remains of the crew were buried in the town of Zapolyarny.

Drop location:

10. Pe-2 from the same air regiment of the 5th mine-torpedo air division of the Northern Fleet Air Force (watched the film "Torpedo bombers?")

Pilot junior lieutenant Arkady Alekseevich Libakov, navigator junior lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Oleinik, gunner-radio operator Sergeant Ivan Vasilievich Grishin.

On August 23, 1943, when bombing an enemy convoy, he was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery of escort ships. The plane caught fire and fell on the Musta-Tunturi ridge. The crew was killed. Found in the early 1990s near the border sign on Musta-Tunturi.
The history of the board and the crew on the link

11. Pe-2... Found in the area of Titovskaya height (engine parts, brake grille).

Impact location: