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    Airframe Family: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco (NATO)
    Latest Model:MiG-17 Fresco-A (NATO)
    Last Military Serial:87 BBC
    Construction Number:540734
    Compressed ID:Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17 sn 87 BBC c...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MiG-17.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Bulgarian Air Force with s/n 87.

    September 1995

    Transferred to Ground Instruction, Dolna Mitropolija, Bulgaria.

    To Willim B. Culberson, Fighter Jets Jet Demo Team.

    By September 2008

    To USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    Markings Applied: 2087
    Marked as North Vietnamese Air Force.

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    2017

    Parked on the storage yard.

    4 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    26 September 2023


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
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