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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-21US Mongol-B (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:23+99 {2} Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:01685134
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21US sn 23+99...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flugplatzmuseum, Cottbus Airport, Cottbus, Brandenburg

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    Dates

    Event

    By 29 July 1968

    Constructed as a MiG-21US.

    By December 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Nationalen Volksarmee (National Peoples Army) with s/n 215.

    19 December 1968

    Transferred to JG-9, Peenemunde.

    13 July 1973

    Transferred to JG-2, Neubrandenburg.

    19 September 1989

    Transferred to FAG-15, Rothenburg.

    8 June 1990

    Last flight.
    Total hours - 2,244hrs.

    3 October 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 23+99 {2}.

    To Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    February 1994

    Loaned to Flugplatzmuseum, Cottbus Airport, Cottbus, Brandenburg.
    View the Location Dossier

    By April 2001

    Markings Applied: 215
    Displayed in original East German markings.

    14 April 2001


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    14 April 2001


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    25 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany

    25 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany

    20 June 2024


    Photographer: Gunther Debiscop
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