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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-23MLD Flogger-K (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:44 VVS
    Construction Number:0390323079
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23MLD sn 44 VV...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MiG-23MLD.

    Circa 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily with s/n 44 and operated with these markings: 44 white.

    Sold legally as a display aircraft by a Russian general to a Finnish company, supposedly to obtain funds to feed his troops. An American in Florida purchased it, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms seized it when he imported it illegally without proper permits.

    By 1998

    To National Air Intelligence Center, Dayton, OH.

    November 1998

    To United States Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Markings Applied: 44 White
    Marked as aircraft assigned to a Soviet Frontal Aviation Regiment.

    12 September 2002


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the NMUSAF

    2004

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    November 2009

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Displayed with the tail of 20+15 German Luftwaffe.
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    By 9 September 2011

    Markings Applied: 35 red
    Finished in false markings.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    16 March 2017


    Photographer: Mike LaChance
    Notes: Shot at Pima Air and Space Museum
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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