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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-21U-600 Mongol-B (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:291 NVA
    Construction Number:664718
    Last Civil Registration:N121TJ
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21U-600 sn 291...
    Latest Owner or Location:Draken International, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MiG-21U-600.

    2 May 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Nationalen Volksarmee (National Peoples Army) with s/n 291.

    13 January 1989

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at FWD Germany, prepared for export to Iran.

    1990

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Airport Landshut, Bavaria.

    20 September 1996

    To Thomas M Jackson, Van Nuys, CA.

    Circa 1998


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Mojave Airport, CA

    6 April 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX121TJ (MIG 21 UT, 4718) issued.

    Based at Mojave Airport, Mojave, CA.
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    5 January 2004

    To Thomas M. Jackson, California City, CA with new c/r N121TJ.

    17 September 2008

    To South Florida Antiquities Defense Museum, Fort Myers, FL keeping c/r N121TJ.

    Based at Immokalee Regional Airport, Immokalee, FL.
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    2013

    To Draken International, Lakeland, FL.
    Markings added: 299

    Based at Draken International, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    21 October 2014


    Photographer: John Tomlinson

    13 May 2015

    Civil registration, N121TJ, cancelled.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Thorsten Ruchel
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