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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-23S Flogger-A (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:08 red VVS
    Construction Number:220001013
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23S sn 08 red...
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftfahrthistorische Sammlung Finow, Finow AB, Eberswalde, Brandenburg

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MiG-23S.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily with s/n 08 red.
    S/n also reported as 87.

    Sole MiG-23S deployed by the Soviets to East Germany. It was damaged during test and withdrew from use.

    March 1979

    To NVA Luftstreitkrafte (East German AF).
    As a ground instructional airframe.

    March 1979

    Transferred to Offiziershochschule der Luftstreitkrafte/Luftverteidigung (Air Force/Air Defence Officer College), Kamenz, GDR.

    Transferred to Militartechnische Schule der Luftstreitkrafte/Luftverteidigung (Air Force/Air Defence Military Technical School), Bad Duben, GDR.

    May 1994

    To Luftfahrthistorische Sammlung Finow, Finow AB, Eberswalde, Brandenburg.
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    8 May 2002


    Photographer: John Bennett

    16 September 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2012 photo at Luftfahrtmuseum-Finowfurt, Germany

    26 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Finow, Brandenburg, Germany

    26 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Finow, Brandenburg, Germany
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    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
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