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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5R Fresco-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:1906 SPRP
    Construction Number:1C 19-06
    Latest Owner or Location:Indiana Military Museum, Vincennes, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 1906.

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

    1990

    Withdrawn from use.
    Put into storage at Katowice AB in 1991.

    To Greater Rockford Airport (RFD), Rockford, IL.
    View the Location Dossier

    2016

    To Indiana Military Museum, Vincennes, IN.
    View the Location Dossier

    11 February 2017


    Photographer: Frank Roales
    Notes: As received at the Indiana Military Museum, Vincennes, IN 2016

    11 February 2017


    Photographer: Frank Roales
    Notes: Actual Polish Lim-5R marked as MiG-17F of North Korean A.F. individual markings yet to be applted
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     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Frank Roales
    Thorsten Ruchel
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