[vlad29]

Originally Posted by gap

Aircraft in service with Soviet Air Forces, already featured in SH5 + OH 2.3 + OH 2.3 patch 1 beta:

fighters
Yakovlev Yak-1 (Yak-7, Yak-9, Yak-3 as proxy units)--Jak-1 - since August till November 1942, then from June 1943 after reinforcement (20th fighters rgmt.)
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (MiG-1 as proxy unit)-Mig-3 - since July 1941 and only 10 planes, by the middle 1942 or earlier were out of battles (missed or broken)
Lavochkin La-5 (LaGG-3 as proxy units)-La-5 were not used in the Northern Navy , Lagg-3 - since July 1942 up 1943 (255th rgmt.), then was replaced with "aircobra"
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt-were not used in the NN
Hawker Hurricane - since September 1941 (very popular)
Gloster SS.37 Gladiator - were not used in NN. But there were 10 biplanes U-2 (Po-2), that were used since 13Nov.1941 as "night bombers"

seaplanes
Beriev KOR-1 / Be-2 - no info re. using it in Northern Navy
Beriev MBR 2 - that was the main reconnaissance hydro-plane in NN


Aircraft already in SH format, but not yet imported/used in SH5

fighters
Lavochkin La-7 (LaGG-3 / La-5 variant)- Lagg-3 - see info above, La-5 was not used in NN, La-7 appeared in soviet army at the very end of war and took part in the last battles over Europe
Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk / Warhawk-- Dynamics of P-40 in Murmansk as follows: January 11, 1942 (the convoy PQ-7) - 4 planes, January 20 (PQ-8) - 15; February 10 (PQ-9) - 2, March 12 (PQ-12 ) - 44, and only in 1942 - 272 «Tomahawk» and a «Kittyhawk» a. In 1943 came 108 R-40 (with convoys SW 52,54 and 55). Last «Kittyhawk» and (111 units) were delivered to the port of Murmansk 29.02 on 5.4.44, the convoy SW 56, 57 and 58.First in the North «Tomahawk» and received 147 IAP. As the fighting wore here positional, retraining took place directly in the operational zone. The regiment continued to fight on I-153 in between fights mastering «Tomahawk» IIB and «Hurricane» IIB. First «Tomahawk» and received at the beginning of December 1941 (AK295, 296 and 318), and by the end of January 1942 was completed retraining. Until mid-April the regiment fought on two types of fighters, and, for example, in the II Squadron in I and III were 2 links «Tomahawk» a and 2 «Hurricane».
April 1, 1942 the regiment became the 20th Guards IAP, was transformed to a new state of 015/134, passed May 1 «Hurricane» and, in addition to available «Tomahawk» IIB (AK170, 180, 194, 202, 205, 263, 267, 306, 344, 339, 473, 483) received a P-40E (№ № 583, 586, 600, 664, 787, 789, 796, 810-814, 823, 824, 843, 849, 860, 1101, 1108).
Supermarine Spitfire- no info re. using it in NN

bombers
Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik (Il-10 as proxy unit)
Ilyushin DB-3 (Il-4 as proxy unit) - one of the main torpedo-bombers in NN since Sept.1941 (first 3 planes), since June 1942 (40 planes)
Tupolev Tu-2 - Petluakov Pe-2, Pe-3 were mostly used
North American B-25 Mitchell - was not in use in NN. "Boston" (1944) and "Hampden" (since automn 1941 - january 1942 - RAF based on Soviet airfields, since end of Jan 1942 - 20 planes were transmitted to NN).

seaplanes
Consolidated PBY / GTS -


Aircraft whose 3d models are freely available on the web, and which can be made into SH5 air units

fighters
Polikarpov I-15 and I-15bis (I-153 as proxy unit)
Polikarpov I-16
Bell P-39 Airacobra
Bell P-63 Kingcobra - no need at all

bombers
Tupolev SB - was one of the main bombers in NN 1941-1942
Lisunov Li-2 (USSR-buildt version of the Douglas DC-3) - that was a transport plane, not a bomber (don't think it is needed in SH5)

I have ignored intentionally aircraft which were produced/purchad/captured by the USSR in small numbers, and/or only used for evaluation purposes, far from the front lines.
We have in total 21 main aircraft models and 10 variants. Not bad at all

Hi Gap, really good news and good Inet-material I've looked through it also. Now we had to determine which period of time we should take to position the right planes into the right airfields.
Please note the marks in color above