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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed (NATO)
    Latest Model:F-7
    Last Military Serial:1603 {2} Chinese AF
    Last Civil Registration:N21MG
    Compressed ID:Chengdu F-7 sn 1603 Chinese AF cr N...
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    1965

    Constructed as a F-7 by Chengdu at China.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Chinese Air Force with s/n 1603 {2}.

    Transported by ship.
    Moved to Houston, TX.

    7 June 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N21MG.

    7 June 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX21MG (F-7 MIG-21, 1603) issued.

    June 1990

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Flown at the Houston-Hobby Airport.

    By July 1990

    Markings Applied: 4603
    Restored in North Vietnamese Air Force markings.

    Circa July 1990


    Photographer: Bill Rappe

    Circa July 1990


    Photographer: Bill Rappe

    Circa July 1990


    Photographer: Bill Rappe

    28 July 1990


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: At Oshkosh 1990

    By August 1992

    Markings Applied: 4326

    1 August 1992


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: at Oshkosh 1992

    2 February 1993

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N21MG.

    By June 1994

    Markings Applied: 1309
    Marked as Czechoslovakian Air Force.

    12 June 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL airport

    23 July 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    Based at EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    1 January 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX21MG (F-7 MIG-21, 1603) issued.

    By July 2011

    Markings Applied: 4326
    Estored in North Vietnamese Air Force markings.

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    25 July 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2012

    29 October 2012

    Civil registration, N21MG, cancelled.

    29 July 2023


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: This aircraft was displayed on the EAA grounds near the main gate and not at the EAA museum sight.
    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
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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