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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot (NATO)
    Latest Model:SBLim-2
    Last Military Serial:638 SPRP
    Construction Number:1A 06-038
    Last Civil Registration:N38BM
    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-1 by WSK-Mielec at Poland.

    13 November 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 638.

    Circa 1958

    Converted to a SBLim-1.

    1974

    Converted to a SBLim-2.

    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, UK.

    1986

    To John MacGuire, Fort Hancock, TX.

    Moved from the UK to Oakland, CA.

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Oakland, CA, to Reno, NV.

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

    23 January 1987

    To John MacGuire, Fort Hancock, TX with new c/r N38BM.

    June 1987

    To Classics, American Aviation/Al Reddick, Reno, NV keeping c/r N38BM.

    From By 1988 to By 1989

    To Defense Test and Evaluation Agency, Kirtland AFB, NM keeping c/r N38BM.

    3 October 1989

    Civil registration, N38BM, cancelled.

    July 1990

    Placed in storage at the Reno-Stead Airport.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From 1990 to By 1992

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.

    July 1992

    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.
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    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    By 9 September 2011

    Markings Applied: red 038
    Painted in Polish Air Force markings.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    7 November 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Notes: No longer displayed hanging indoors
    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
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
    Thorsten Ruchel
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