Biplane fighter aces

Soviet Union

Nikita Timofeyevich Syusyukalov

Nikita Syusyukalov served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.
In Spain he served in the 1a Escuadrilla of 26 Gruppo de Caza flying the Polikarpov I-15.

In August 1937, he claimed a shared destroyed Do17 near Zaragoza together with Leytenant Yevgenii Stepanov.

On 24 August he claimed a shared Junkers.

It is possible that both Syusyukalov's claims are the same.

Syusyukalov ended the war with two shared biplane victories, both claims while flying the Polikarpov I-15 during the Spanish Civil War.

Claims:
Kill no. Date Time Number Type Result Plane type Serial no. Locality Unit
  1937                
  ??/08/37   ½ Do17 Shared destroyed I-15   near Zaragoza 1a/Gr. 26
  24/08/37   ½ Junkers Shared destroyed I-15   Spain 1a/Gr. 26

Biplane victories: 2 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 2 shared destroyed.

Sources:
Soviet Fighter On Three Fronts - John Guttman, 1995 Aviation History
Stalin's Falcons - Tomas Polak and Christhoper Shores, 1999 Grub Street, London, ISBN 1-902304-01-2
The Legion Condor - Karl Ries and Hans Ring, 1992 Schiffer Publishing, ISBN 0-88740-339-5
Additional information kindly provided by Ondrej Repka.




Last modified 07 September 2010