page_title: Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: Finnish Air Force LaGG-3
context_page_description: The Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. It was a refinement of the earlier LaGG-1 and was one of the most modern aircraft available to the Soviet Air Force at the time of Germany's invasion in 1941. Despite its wooden construction, it was overweight and underpowered, at one stage 12 LaGG-3s were being completed daily and 6,528 had been built when factory 31 in Tbilisi switched to Yak-3 production in 1944.
context_section_description:  Finland
  Finnish Air Force - operated three captured examples, mainly as bomber interceptors. WO Eino Koskinen scored the sole kill achieved by a LaGG-3 in Finnish colors, when he downed a Soviet LaGG-3 on 16 February 1944 in the plane marked as LG-1.
   Germany
  Luftwaffe - operated captured examples for tests. One captured example was used for a propaganda movie in 1943.
   Japan
  Imperial Japanese Army Air Service - operated one flown into Manchuria by a defector. It was used for testing.
   Soviet Union
  Soviet Air Force
caption: Finnish Air Force LaGG-3
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