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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5 Fresco-C (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:1611 SPRP
    Construction Number:1C 16-11
    Last Civil Registration:N217SH
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-5 sn 1611 SPRP cn 1C...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side), Tyler, Texas

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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 1611.

    1990

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Katowice AB.

    1994

    To unknown owner.

    6 April 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX217SH (MIG 17 (LIM-5), 1C1611) issued.

    23 January 2002

    To Fighter Jets Inc, Mabank, TX with new c/r N217SH.

    Based at Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side), Tyler, TX.
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    3 November 2012


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Wings of Homestead Airshow in Florida

    October 2013


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: Lim-5 (MiG-17) at Wings Over Houston Airshow, Ellington Field, Houston, Tx. Oct. 2013.

    21 October 2017


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: Wings over Houston 2017, Ellington Texas

    27 April 2018


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Joint Base Charleston (KCHS)

    30 July 2022


    Photographer: Robin MORET
    Notes: EAA AirVenture 2022 night show opening, Oshkosh, WI
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Thorsten Ruchel
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