🌟 [Historical review] Why you should get the upcoming hero gold order La5 FN of "Georgiy Kostylev"!

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Here is an English article about the plane and the pilot.

Lavochkin, La-5, Kostylev’s White-15 (Dragon Head) — Planes in Profile

Regarding historical details, it mentions that:

"White-15” was an airplane gifted to Kostylev by his comrades from the 4-th GIAP, to mark his leaving for the position of Chief inspector of Fighter Aviation of the VVS KBF in October 1943 (or soon after). This airplane was one of the retired La-5s which were held in reserve because by this time the 4-th GIAP was re-equipped with the newer La-5 modifications (La-5F and La-5FN planes). This machine, like most Type-37 La-5s, was originally painted in Green/Black camouflage while it served with the 4th GIAP, but to present it to Kostylev the technicians repainted it with a uniform grey colour, a roughly equal mixture of AMT-11 and AMT-12 greys. Some theorise that White-15 had jaws with rounded teeth painted on it while it was still used by the 4th GIAP and while it was still covered in its original GREEN/BLACK camouflage, …

Kostylev flew this repainted fighter only once, probably just around the airfield, in a non-combat, ‘farewell flight’. It’s not known if this plane was actually one of the machines that Kostylev flew while serving with the 4th GIAP. It is quite possible that it was.

It’s worth noting that allegedly the painters at the museum have embellished some of the paintwork a little after Kostylev’s last flight. For example, it is often said that the sharp/fanged teeth we see in the photos of White-15 were added by the painters at the museum. If this is true, it means that when Kostylev flew this plane on his ‘farewell flight’ the plane might have still had similar rounded teeth as the ones which were painted on three other airplanes of the 4-th GIAP by the technician P.D.Makarov. This also means that White-15 might have actually never been flown at all in the exact paint scheme as the one in the photos from the Exhibition and in the illustrations on this page.

So the description of “1942” seems very strange, but this is not the first time Enlisted has had problems in this regard. I personally think this is probably the best airplane skin in the game, but unfortunately the La-5FN itself is almost useless.

I am curious about how the idea that this aircraft should be painted in pure green come up?