This Warhawk was built by the Curtiss company as USAAF 41-13570 (c/n16786) and shipped to the Soviet Union. It was assigned to the 20th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 14 Army for defence of the Port of Murmansk and the Kola Peninsula. On June 1, 1942 it was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf-109 of II/JG5 and crash-landed on a lake. It remained there till August 1997. It went through several restorers. Finally, it arrived in Belgium on 10 May 2024.
