An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Lieutenant Mikhail Ivanovich Safonov (13 November 1893 – May 1924) was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He began his naval service on 20 September 1909, when he entered Saint Peterburg's Imperial Russian Naval Academy. When he applied for aviation training in September 1915, he was a with six years naval training and seagoing service.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Lieutenant Mikhail Ivanovich Safonov (13 November 1893 – May 1924) was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He began his naval service on 20 September 1909, when he entered Saint Peterburg's Imperial Russian Naval Academy. When he applied for aviation training in September 1915, he was a with six years naval training and seagoing service. On 1 December 1915, he soloed. On 2 April 1916, he was classified as a naval pilot. He was posted to pilot Grigorovich M-9 flying boats that mounted a Madsen machine gun. After two aerial victories while piloting flying boats, with consequent decorations for valor, Safonov was appointed to command his Glagol Detachment on 14 July 1917. He gained access to a Nieuport fighter, which he used for his third victory on 7 September 1917. After a promotion to Senior Lieutenant on 25 October, he married while on a brief leave. He returned to command the 2nd Fighter Detachment and score two more aerial victories with the Nieuport. He was mustered out in March 1918. Safonov then became an itinerant aerial mercenary in the Finnish Civil War. In 1919, he changed loyalties to join the White Russians. After travelling with his wife through Persia and India, he joined Britain's Royal Air Force. In May 1924, he was killed in a flying accident in China. (en)
  • Михаи́л Ива́нович Сафо́нов (31 октября 1893, Острогожск — май 1924, Китай) — один из первых российских военно-морских лётчиков и гидроавиаторов, русский лётчик-ас. (ru)
dbo:allegiance
  • Russian Empire
dbo:award
dbo:militaryUnit
dbo:occupation
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1918-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1893-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 24466795 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 11248 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1021124726 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:allegiance
dbp:awards
  • Order of Saint Vladimir Fourth Class with Swords and Ribbon, (en)
  • 9.46728E9
  • Order of Saint Stanilas Third Class with Swords and Bow, (en)
  • Order of Saint Vladimir Third Class with Swords and Ribbon (en)
  • Order of Saint Anne Fourth Class with inscription "For Bravery", (en)
  • Bronze Medal commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Fatherland War, (en)
dbp:birthDate
  • 1893-11-13 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:branch
  • Aviation (en)
dbp:deathDate
  • May 1924 (en)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Ming River, China (en)
dbp:laterwork
  • Flew in Finnish Civil War and in RAF. (en)
dbp:name
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Safonov, alias Mikko Vuorenheimo (en)
dbp:rank
  • Lieutenant (en)
dbp:serviceyears
  • 0001-09-20 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:unit
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Михаи́л Ива́нович Сафо́нов (31 октября 1893, Острогожск — май 1924, Китай) — один из первых российских военно-морских лётчиков и гидроавиаторов, русский лётчик-ас. (ru)
  • Lieutenant Mikhail Ivanovich Safonov (13 November 1893 – May 1924) was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He began his naval service on 20 September 1909, when he entered Saint Peterburg's Imperial Russian Naval Academy. When he applied for aviation training in September 1915, he was a with six years naval training and seagoing service. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Mikhail Safonov (pilot) (en)
  • Сафонов, Михаил Иванович (лётчик) (ru)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Safonov, alias Mikko Vuorenheimo (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License