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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-6M
    Last Military Serial:102 {1} SPRP
    Construction Number:1D 01-02
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-6M sn 102 SPRP cn 1D...
    Latest Owner or Location:Route 163, Czaplinek, Zachodniopomorskie (West Pomeranian Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

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

    12 February 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 102 {1}.

    12 February 1959

    Transferred to Wyzsza Szkola Pilotow (Pilots High School), Modlin, Poland.

    April 1960

    Transferred to Centrum Szkolenia Lotniczego (Aviation Training Center), Modlin, Poland.

    Circa 1965


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Most likely during mid 1960s at the Modlin Air Base, Poland.

    24 April 1969

    Transferred to 2 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (2nd Fighter Aviation Regiment), Goleniow-Glewice, Poland.

    22 March 1971

    Transferred to 40 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (40th Fighter Aviation Regiment), Swidwin, Poland.

    Circa 27 March 1971

    Transferred to 40 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwsko-Szturmowego (40th Fighter-Attack Aviation Regiment), Swidwin, Poland.

    From 14 March 1972 to October 1972

    Converted to a Lim-6M by WSK-Mielec at Poland.
    Conversion made at LZR-2 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

    27 October 1972

    Transferred to 40 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwsko-Szturmowego (40th Fighter-Attack Aviation Regiment), Swidwin, Poland.

    13 July 1974

    Transferred to Klucz dowodztwa 3 Dywizji Lotnictwa Szturmowo-Rozpoznawczego (Command flight of 3rd Attack-Reconnaissance Aviation Division).

    14 July 1978

    Transferred to 40 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwsko-Szturmowego (40th Fighter-Attack Aviation Regiment), Swidwin, Poland.

    From 2 February 1982 to October 1982

    Transferred to Lotnicze Zaklady Remontowe NR 2 (Aviation Repair Works No. 2), Bydgoszcz, Poland.
    Overhaul.

    28 October 1982

    Transferred to 40 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwsko-Szturmowego (40th Fighter-Attack Aviation Regiment), Swidwin, Poland.

    30 August 1986

    Transferred to 8 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwsko-Bombowego (8th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment), Miroslawiec, Poland.

    20 October 1988

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej.

    August 1991

    Placed on display with Route 163, Czaplinek, Zachodniopomorskie (West Pomeranian Voivodeship).
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    27 May 2008


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Czaplinek, Zachodniopormorskie, Poland

    4 April 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the town of Czaplinek, Poland.
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    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
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