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    Airframe Family: Yakovlev Yak-17
    Latest Model:Yak-17UTI Magnet (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:4 SPRP
    Construction Number:3120132
    Last Civil Registration:SP-GLM
    Compressed ID:Yakovlev Yak-17UTI sn 4 SPRP cn 312...
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1949

    Constructed as a Yak-17UTI.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily.

    1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej with s/n 4.

    1951

    Transferred to 1 PLM (1st Fighter Aviation Regiment), Warsaw-Bemowo.

    18 August 1951

    Transferred to 13 PLM (13th Fighter Aviation Regiment), Warsaw-Bemowo.

    1952

    Transferred to 39 PLM (39th Fighter Aviation Regiment), Mierzecice.

    1 March 1957

    To Instytut Lotnictwa (Institute of Aviation), Warsaw with new c/r SP-GLM.

    3 February 1960

    Placed on display with Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    Markings Applied: 02 red

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: Krakow air museum Poland

    30 August 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    19 June 2012


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

    Markings Applied: IL, SP-GLM, IL
    Painted in the markings of the IL (Institute of Aviation) in Warsaw.

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland. Painted with Institute of Aviation livery.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
    Polot.net
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Andrew William Breeden
    Marcin Rogowski
    John Yates
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