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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-21MF Fishbed-J (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:23+40 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:966215
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21MF sn 23+40...
    Latest Owner or Location:Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, Oberschleissheim, Bavaria

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MiG-21MF.

    9 January 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Nationalen Volksarmee (National Peoples Army) with s/n 687.

    3 October 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 23+40.

    To Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, Oberschleissheim, Bavaria.
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    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    25 October 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: 687 at Flugwerft Schleissheim, Germany
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Thorsten Ruchel
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