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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ( Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) [1] is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL ...
In 1990 Luftwaffe sold to USAF 12 MiG-23ML, 2 MiG-23BN, 2 Su-22M4 and 1 MiG-29. Clandestine procurement of MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21, all in operating condition but stored, was negotiated in the end of 1960s with Indonesia. The USAF offered $250,000 for each plane, as previously when MiG planes had been received from Korea, Pakistan, Cambodia ...
The aircraft, a 1995-built Tupolev Tu-154M registered as RA-85816, was first delivered to BAL Bashkirian Airlines before being sold to Transeuropean Airlines in 1998. The aircraft was once again sold to Shaheen Air in 1999 before being returned to BAL Bashkirian Airlines in January 2002.
December 22, 1992: Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103, a 727-2L5 (registration 5A-DIA) was involved in a mid-air collision with a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of Libyan Air Force over Tripoli, Libya. The crash resulted in the deaths of 147 passengers and 10 crew members on board the 727, the two MiG pilots survived.
21 (direct) 1 (indirect) Ground injuries. 27. On September 24, 1972, a privately owned Canadair Sabre Mk. 5 jet, piloted by Richard L. Bingham, failed to take off while leaving the "Golden West Sport Aviation Air Show" at Sacramento Executive Airport in Sacramento, California, United States. The airplane crashed into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor.
A Canadian Armed Forces Canadair CT-114 Tutor crashed into farmland just northwest of CFB Moose Jaw while taking photographs of a formation of Canadian Forces training aircraft, both crew killed. 17 October The Russian Air Force grounded all its Mikoyan MiG-29s following a crash in Siberia on this date.
On 17 December 2023, a Su-34 parked at Morozovsk (air base) sustained minor damage due to Ukrainian drone attack. The aircraft was protected by anti-drone netting and was covered by ice build up on its airframe. On 22 December 2023, Ukrainian official sources claimed shot down of three Russian Su-34 in southern Ukraine by surface-to-air missiles.
United States Air Force. Produced. 1955–1964. Number built. 833. The Republic F-105 Thunderchief is an American fighter-bomber that served with the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1984. Capable of Mach 2, it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War; it is the only American aircraft to ...