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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5 Fresco-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:408 SPRP
    Construction Number:1C 04-08
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-5 sn 408 SPRP cn 1C...
    Latest Owner or Location:Deblin Air Force Museum, Deblin, Lubelskie (Lublin Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

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

    May 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 408.

    1957

    Transferred to 39. Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (39th Fighter Aviation Regiment), Mierzecice, Poland.

    By 1965

    Transferred to 2. Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (2nd Fighter Aviation Regiment), Lask, Poland.

    From 1965 to 1968

    Transferred to 1. Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (1st Fighter Aviation Regiment), Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Probably at the ITWL in Warsaw, Poland during 1960s.

    1968

    Transferred to Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Military Academy of Technology), Warsaw, Poland.
    As an instructional airframe.

    April 1998

    Placed on display with Lublinek Airport, Lodz, Lodzkie.
    View the Location Dossier

    February 2012

    Placed on display with Deblin Air Force Museum, Deblin, Lubelskie (Lublin Voivodeship).
    View the Location Dossier

    22 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Deblin - Irena, Lubelskie, Poland
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    European Wrecks and Relics, 2st Edition
    Internet Sources
     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
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