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Polikarpov I-16 Rata

Multi-Role Fighter
First flight in December 1933. 8,644 aircraft manufactured from January 1935

Engine : Shvestov M-63 rated at 1,100hp
Speed : 304mph at 13,125ft or 489kph at 4,000m
Climb rate : 2,900ft/min or 882m/min
Length : 20ft 1in or 6.1m
Wingspan : 29ft 6in or 9m
Weight : 3,285lbs or 1,490kg empty & 4,619lbs or 2,095kg maximum
Service Ceiling : 35,500ft or 10,820m
Range : 435miles or 700km
Armament : 2x 7.62mm ShKAS machine guns & 2x 20mm ShKAS cannon
Loadout : 2x 250kg bombs or 6x RS-82 rockets

Specifications from WW2 Warbirds & Wikipedia

Basic Skin-pack

'Default' replacements
Based on the official factory colours, to replace in-game defaults, DGEN skins etc.
The Basic Skin-pack contains :
- AII Green
- AII Dark Green
- Mk-7 White
- Trainer from 2 GvIAP of the Northern Fleet, 1942

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.

Alpine Fighter Collection Skin-pack

Aircraft of the New Zealand Fighter Pilot's Museum
These represent some of the Polikarpovs lovingly restored & flown by the warbirds museum back home. I doubt the colors in these schemes are correct but the colors are acurate compared to the photos I have seen. And I like them anyway!
The Alpine Fighter Collection Skin-pack contains :
- Red 4
- Red 9
- White 34
- White 45

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.

Spanish Civil War Skin-pack

Republican & Nationalist Aircraft
A collection of schemes from the Spanish Civil War, ranging from the simple & elegant to the lurid & bizarre!
The Spanish Civil War Skin-pack contains :
- 1-W-30, used by 26 Gruppo de Casa as a trainer in 1944
- 2-G-3 was captured by the Spanish Nationalists in 1939
- CM-193, a type 10 of 4a Escuadrilla de Mosca & flown by Fransisco Arais in 1939
- No serial number from CASA for the Spanish Republicans, late 1938
- CH-002, about which I appear to have no information

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.

Winter Skin-pack

Winter Schemes
Winter schemes in a mixutre of Mk-7, AII Green & AII Dark Green - all at once sometimes, in fact!
The Winter Skin-pack contains :
- Black 6, a type 17 shown in service of 71 IAP-KBF in Leningrad, 1941
- Red 12, found on the Leningrad front 1941
- Ivan Romanenko's White 1 of 13 IAP-KBF, 1941
- White 7, probably flown by Aleksandr Mironenko of 13 IAP-KBF, winter 1941-42
- White 91, probably of 728 IAP, winter 1941-42

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.

Black Skin-pack

Factory Schemes, based on Zavod Black
At the factories in the USSR that churned out aircraft by the tens of thousands, the painters went a bit wild with the black spray paint & created many memorable & intriguing paint schemes. They are celebrated here in a selection of skins linked by the liberal use of Zavod black.
The Black Skin-pack contains :
- From 161 IAP comes Red 1, near Minsk 1941
- Red 9, flown by Lt. Vershin in 1941
- White 13 of 7 IAP, 1941
- S. Slesarchuk's White 1 was with the PVO forces of 7 IAK in Moscow, spring 1941
- On the Baltic front with the 4 GIAP-KBF, White 28 was Vasiliev's aircraft
- A simple scheme, White 3, 1941
- Kapitan Mirovan Sergeev of 8 IAP, Baltic Sea Fleet, flew White 30 during the heroic defense of Seavastopol, winter 1941-42
- Also from Minsk in the summer of 1941, White 39 was with the 161 IAP
- White 54 completes the trio of bizarre marked Minsk line-up
- White 75 is a typical 1940-41 scheme from Novosibirsk in green & black

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.

Plain Skin-pack

Single Colour Schemes
Schemes consisting primarily of just one color. They may be plain looking but many of these were flown by aces!
The Plain Skin-pack contains :
- Boris Safanov flew White 11 for the 72 IAP, 1941. The inscriptions read 'Death to fascism!' & 'All behind Joseph Stalin!'
- Operating from a field near Odessa, Yellow 4 took part in the Southern Front until the airfield was over-run & it was captured by the advancing Germans
- This is one of many versions of White 13, as flown by S. Surzhenko of the 2 GvIAP, Murmansk 1941
- From the Baltic Front, October 1942, White 21 was probably in Navy service, 4 GIAP
- Stationed at Shogui Airfield, White 23 was flown by the CO of 2nd Sqn, L.A Galtchenko
- One version of White 27, flown by Lt. Krichevski, Leningrad 1943
- The pilot of White 33 was V.F Golubev, CO of 3rd AE, 4 GvIAP, Baltic Fleet 1942. Inscription reads 'For Vasiliy Zaharov', Golubev's wingman who died saving Golubev

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.

Wild Cards Skin-pack

Assorted Schemes
Some of the left overs ;) Wild & creative color schemes, or others I simply didnt know where to put!
The Wild Cards Skin-pack contains :
- Captured by the Germans & repainted in this scheme, this I-16 became DM-HC
- A fictional skin based on Raspball's Murmansk for the Il-2
- Red 4 is an aircraft of one of the reserve IAP, 1944
- St.Lt Zhuikov flew Red 8 for 7 IAP just after the outbreak of the war, summer 1941
- Personal mount of Maj. Pavel Petrov, Red 1 of 33 IAP, summer 1941
- From the Baku Air Defense Area, 1942, White 68 of the 481 IAP

Template by me, from the void. Instrument panel from screenshots.
Includes files for all I-16 models & un-marked skins.