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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-2 Fagot-B (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:822 SPRP
    Construction Number:1B 008-22
    Last Civil Registration:N822JM
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-2 sn 822 SPRP cn 1B...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lim-2 by WSK-Mielec at Poland.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 822.

    September 1986

    To LBA Systems/Andy MacGill and Ian McGregor, Retford, West Midlands, UK.

    October 1986

    Transported by ship.
    Moved from Poland to the Middlesborough Docks.

    1986

    To John MacGuire, Fort Hancock, TX.

    Transported by ship.
    Moved from the UK to Oakland, CA.

    Reassembled.
    The work was carried out in Reno, NV.

    January 1987

    To John MacGuire, Fort Hancock, TX with new c/r N822JM.

    June 1987

    To Classics, American Aviation/Al Reddick, Reno, NV keeping c/r N822JM.

    Markings Applied: 822
    Painted in a Soviet AF colour scheme.

    7 March 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX822JM (MIG 15UTI, 1B00822) issued.

    From By 1988 to By 1989

    To Defense Test and Evaluation Agency, Kirtland AFB, NM keeping c/r N822JM.

    From 1990 to By 1992

    Assigned to Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ for storage.
    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    By 1992

    Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    Restoration started.
    Static restoration carried out.

    22 June 1992

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: red 822
    Rolled-out in a North Korean colour scheme.

    31 October 1997

    To unknown owner with c/r N822JM.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    1 January 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX822JM (MIG 15UTI, 1B00822) issued.

    1 January 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r N822JM.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    26 April 2013

    Civil registration, N822JM, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    23 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ, USA.

    18 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Thorsten Ruchel
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