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    Airframe Family: Sukhoi Su-17/20/22 Fitter (NATO)
    Latest Model:Su-20 Fitter-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:4242 SPRP
    Construction Number:6602
    Compressed ID:Sukhoi Su-20 sn 4242 SPRP cn 6602
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    February 1974

    Constructed as a Su-20.

    26 April 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 02.
    In Poland unofficially called Su-20R since it was factory-fitted with AFA-39 camera.

    From 26 April 1974 to October 1982

    Transferred to 7. Brygada Lotnictwa Bombowo-Rozpoznawczego (7th Bomber-Reconnaissance Aviation Brigade), Powidz, Poland.

    Circa 1975

    New serial number assigned: 4242 SPRP

    After 1975


    Photographer: WAF
    Notes: At the Powidz Air Base, Poland.

    1980


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At Powidz Air Base.

    From October 1982 to 28 February 1994

    Transferred to 7. Pulk Lotnictwa Bombowo-Rozpoznawczego (7th Bomber-Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment), Powidz, Poland.

    28 February 1994

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

    28 February 1994

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

    Circa 1995

    Placed on display with Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    7 June 2007


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: Displayed at the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow

    19 June 2012


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: 2012 photo at Krakow Air Museum

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.
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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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