PRESERVATION

摘要

The Pima Air & Space Museum's Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik project is now approaching completion and will soon join several new arrivals at the Tucson, Arizona attraction. The former Red Banner Baltic Fleet machine, 5612, has recently been reassembled and painted as 'Yellow 24'. Pima's Sturmovik served with the 7th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment. It operated in the area around Leningrad during 1943 and 1944 before being shot down into a lake. After being recovered in 1992 it was acquired by Pima in 2002.