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Date: | Sunday 8 July 1951 |
Time: | 11:13 |
Type: | MiG-15bis |
Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Northeast of Pyongyang -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Tatung-kao |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:523th IAP. MiG-15bis of the 523th IAP(303th IAD)flown by St/Lt P.P. Pavlovsky was shot down by the F-86A-5 49-1109 flown by 1th Lt Richard S. Becker(4th FIW 334th FIS).Pilot ejected and rescued. In the same area, Col Francis S. Gabreski(4th FIW HQ) score his first MiG kill in the Korean War.That was the third MiG kill of Becker(actually the second counting the MiG damage of April 22 and reported as destroyed).
Sources:
Air War Korea 1950-1953 / Robert Jackson, 1998
U.S. Air-to-Air Victories during the Korean War / ACIG Korean War Team -
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_307.shtml Fighter Combat over Korea Part 2: Jet Aces (In: Wings of Fame Vol.2, 1996)
L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,X.Zhang,N.Sutyagin,Y. Pepelyayev,S.Kramarenko.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Jan-2011 14:00 |
ASN archive |
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24-Apr-2011 02:18 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Apr-2011 11:16 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |