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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5R Fresco-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:1414 SPRP
    Construction Number:1C 14-14
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

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

    15 September 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 1414.

    15 September 1958

    Transferred to Wyzsza Szkola Pilotow (Pilots High School), Modlin, Poland.

    1960

    Transferred to Centrum Szkolenia Lotniczego (Aviation Training Center), Modlin, Poland.

    Circa 1960


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At CSL in Modlin, Poland.

    Circa 1963


    Photographer: WAF
    Notes: Somewhere over Poland, most likely during early 1960s.

    Transferred to 3 Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (3rd Fighter Aviation Regiment), Wroclaw-Strachowice, Poland.

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

    By 1989

    Transferred to 61 Lotniczy Pulk Szkolno-Bojowy (61st Training and Combat Aviation Regiment), Biala Podlaska, Poland.

    24 August 1990

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej.

    Assigned to Baza Statkow Powietrznych, JW 4044 (Aircraft Base, Military Unit 4044), Mierzecice, Poland for storage.

    August 1993

    Placed on display with Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    19 June 2012


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: 2012 photo at Krakow Air Museum in Poland
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Marcin Rogowski
    John Yates
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