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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5 Fresco-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:1617 SPRP
    Construction Number:1C 16-17
    Latest Owner or Location:Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

    Constructed as a Lim-5 by WSK-Mielec at Poland.

    4 May 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 1617.

    4 May 1960

    Transferred to 29 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (29th Fighter Aviation Regiment), Orneta, Poland.

    By 1968


    Photographer: WAF
    Notes: At the Orneta Air Force Base, Poland. During 1960s.

    1988

    Sold on the private market and exported to USA.

    1988

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    Markings Applied: 1617
    False North Vietnamese AF roundels and color scheme.

    4 December 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame in Chino, California.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California

    By 22 April 2017

    To Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    22 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Palm Springs Air Museum, CA, USA.

    By November 2017

    Markings Applied: 3020
    False s/n, North Vietnamese AF roundels and camo color scheme.

    Not to be confused with three other Lim-5 planes also painted as 3020. One is at the NAS Fallon, second in San Diego Air and Space Museum and third at the NMUSAF in Dayton.

    9 April 2022


    Photographer: Paul Cremin
    Notes: On display at the Palm Springs Air Museum
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
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