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As the was raised out of the water a stunning discovery was made: The pilot Lt. Ivan Ivanovich Baranovsky, 22 at the time of the crash, was still in the aircraft.

The fisherman had noticed the faint outline of the aircraft in the silt in 16 feet of water. It was buried up to the propeller, but was noticeable in the crystal clear water of the lake located along the Arctic Circle.

Are you going to get the other airplane out of here?вІ said Paul Faltyn, vice president of the Niagara Aerospace Museum.

In summer 2004, the warbird recovery group UK Warbird Finders was diving in lake Mart-Yavr, Russia, looking for another WWII aircraft wreck, when a local fisherman asked вІ

Coming ashore, clearly visible is the 42911 serial as well as a replacement/repair to the port wingtop. This was nearly paint free and natural aluminium.

MissLend-Lease, named by the Ira G. Ross/Niagara Aerospace Museum (NAM) undertaking the restoration, served in a frontline Soviet Air Force squadron along the border with Finland. The discovery in 2004 is rare since remains of the pilot along with key artifacts, found with the aircraft, have provided insights into the mystery of why the aircraft suddenly broke formation as the squadron repositioned to an airfield closer to the front 66 years ago.

A that was built in a western New York state factory in 1943 has returned home after resting at the bottom of a Russian lake since 1944. This particular aircraft was part of 4,719 sent to the Soviet Union under the United StatesвІЂЂЂ Lend-Lease program, which propped up Allied forces with war materiel before and after the U.S. entered World War II.

P-39 emerges from Lake Mart-Yavr, Russia, along the Arctic Circle.