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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot (NATO)
    Latest Model:SBLim-2
    Last Military Serial:008 SPRP
    Construction Number:1A 09-008
    Last Civil Registration:G-BZMN
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich SBLim-2 sn 008 SPR...
    Latest Owner or Location:Greater Rockford Airport (RFD), Rockford, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a Lim-1 by WSK-Mielec at Poland.

    1954

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

    1970

    Converted to a SBLim-2.
    Using the engine and rear fuselage of Lim-2 (c/n 1B 017-12, s/n 1712).

    1970

    New serial number assigned: 008 SPRP


    Photographer: WAF
    Notes: Somewhere in Poland. Probably during 1970s.

    By 1989

    Transferred to 45. Pulk Lotnictwa Szkolno-Bojowego (45th Training-Combat Aviation Regiment), Babimost, Poland.

    1992

    To Graham P. Hinkley, Shoreham, Kent, UK.

    1992

    Exported from Poland to United Kingdom.

    From 1992 to 1995

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Shoreham Airport, Kent, UK.

    1992


    Photographer: skippyscage.com
    Notes: At the Shoreham Airport (EGKA), UK. Thanks to the courtesy of skippyscage.com

    7 October 1995

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, UK.

    June 1996

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Tibenham, Norfolk, UK.

    From July 1998 to 2000

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.

    From 16 October 2000 to 2001

    To Richard James Everett, Abbey Oaks, Sproughton, Suffolk, UK with new c/r G-BZMN.

    2001

    Fuselage only, sold and exported to USA.

    26 June 2001

    Civil registration, G-BZMN, cancelled.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Greater Rockford Airport (RFD), Rockford, IL.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Marcin Rogowski
    Thorsten Ruchel
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