Training version of the I-16 fighter type 4, R-Z reconnaissance aircraft, SB high-speed bomber and other Soviet aircraft during classes at the air school of the Air Force of the Red Army. Eastern Front, Second World War in Europe.
I-16 fighter (TsKB-12) “sixteenth fighter” (colloquially: “Ishak”, “Ishachok”) is a Soviet single-engine monoplane fighter of the 1930s, created in the Experimental Design Bureau of the Soviet aircraft designer Nikolai Polikarpov. One of the world’s first mass-produced monoplane fighters with retractable landing gear in flight. The fighter had a predominantly wooden structure and plywood sheathing.
The aircraft was produced by the military industry of the USSR and was the main fighter of the Red Army Air Force until the beginning of 1942.