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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-6MR
    Last Military Serial:618 SPRP
    Construction Number:1D 06-18
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-6MR sn 618 SPRP cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

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

    2 December 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 618.

    2 December 1960

    Transferred to 41 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (41st Fighter Aviation Squadron), Malbork, Poland.

    After 1972

    Converted to a Lim-6MR by WSK-Mielec at Poland.

    October 1990

    Placed on display with Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    30 August 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    12 December 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Polish Air Museum in Krakow

    28 August 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Krakow - Rakowice, Poland

    19 June 2012


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: 2012 photo at Krakow Air Museum in Poland

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.
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     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
    John Yates
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