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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:Lim-5 Fresco-C (NATO)
    Compressed ID:WSK-Mielec Lim-5
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lim-5 by WSK-Mielec at Poland.
    Origins not confirmed. The SDAaS Museum believes it is one of 120 Lim-5 planes exported to East Germany.

    From Unknown to Circa 1967

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

    Circa 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Egyptian Air Force.

    March 1986

    To San Diego Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 3026
    Painted in North Vietnam AF colours.

    8 September 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: before roof installed

    By 2007

    Markings Applied: 3020
    Painted in North Vietnam AF colours. Code change.

    Not to be confused with three other Lim-5 planes also painted as 3020. One is at the NAS Fallon, second in Palm Springs Air Museum and third at the NMUSAF in Dayton.

    31 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at San Diego Air and Space Museum, California

    21 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the San Diego Air and Space Museum, CA, USA.
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     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
    Marcin Rogowski
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