Mig-15 Scheme/Markings Question --2 anyone???

[longrifle]

Anyone have any information regarding the aircraft flown by Mig ace--Nikolai Sutyagin who I beleive had 19 kills.

http://www.acepilots.com/russian/rus_aces.html

nteresting site with Soviet Mig Aces......

Says nothing about Sutyagin's Mig on how it looked ot numbers anything though.....

[Folkwulfe]

What you're asking may be impossible to answer. Because of the "unofficial" nature of Soviet involvement in the North Korean area, information and photos are very hard to find. ACIG has probably the most comprehensive collection of information and drawings as well as pics from the timeframe, but even they admitt that alot of it is conjecture. A few things are known....most (not all) MiG-15bis aircraft retained the overall nature metal with NK circles on the aft fuse. Only the nose ring originally was painted red, but later more and more of the nose became red. ID numbers were usually red (outlined in white sometimes when inside the red nose area) very much like the S1 paint scheme already out. The S2 paint scheme was applied mostly (at first) to Chinese MiG-15bis aircraft functioning as night-fighters, but later in '53 alot more MiG's wore camo of one style or another. The S3 paint scheme may have belonged to Soviet fighter groups operating just north of the NK border (where FEAF fighters roamed late in the war in an unofficial way of their own!). In the short term, all three paint schemes were used in and around NK during the Korean War....but actual aircraft ID may be impossible to determine with certainty.