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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5R Fresco-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:1613 SPRP
    Construction Number:1C 16-13
    Last Civil Registration:N917F
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-5R sn 1613 SPRP cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Red Star Aero Services Llc, Mobile, AL

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 1613.

    Converted to a Lim-5R by WSK-Mielec at Poland.

    1990

    Withdrawn from use.

    1996

    To David A. Burdine, Hoffman Estates, IL with new c/r N17YB.

    22 March 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX17YB (MIG-17, 1C1613) issued.

    17 June 2006


    Photographer: Dave Miller

    5 February 2008

    To HSI Investments Llc Series 5, Dover, DE keeping c/r N17YB.

    28 March 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX917F (MIG-17, 1C1613) issued.

    11 March 2010

    To Hsi Investments Llc Series 5, Dover, DE with new c/r N917F.

    17 December 2013

    To Richard J. East, Jacksonville, TX keeping c/r N917F.

    26 April 2014


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth JRB, TX Open House.

    26 April 2014


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth JRB, TX Open House.

    21 May 2015

    To Richard J. East, Bullard, TX keeping c/r N917F.

    18 September 2015

    To Howell Warbirds Llc, Tyler, TX keeping c/r N917F.

    13 April 2016

    To Howell Warbirds Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N917F.

    23 September 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Flights of our Fathers Airshow and Fly In, Terrell Municipal Airport, TX.

    13 January 2021

    To Red Star Aero Services Llc, Mobile, AL keeping c/r N917F.

    25 July 2024


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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