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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-23MLD Flogger-K (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:217 BBC
    Construction Number:2960327217 / 18426
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23MLD sn 217 B...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Lowry Field (formerly Lowry AFB), Denver, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MiG-23MLD.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Bulgarian Air Force with s/n 217.

    To Hutchinson County Airport, Borger, TX.
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    To Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Lowry Field (formerly Lowry AFB), Denver, CO.
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    10 August 2019


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Shortly after arrival to WOTR at the former Lowry.

    10 August 2019


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    28 August 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Looking a lot better than the last time I saw this jet in August 2019...

    28 August 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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