Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15: First Soviet Swept-Wing Fighter” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/mikoyan-gurevich-mig-15/.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15: First Soviet Swept-Wing Fighter
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The Driggs city airport in Teton Valley, Idaho is home to one of the few airworthy examples of the remaining MIG-15's. Summertime flights are occasional and rare winter flights happen when low wind or no wind bluebird skies prevail. The MIG is housed in the hangar/museum at the runway restaurant that until recently was called 'Warbirds' (now known as 'Forage').
artmerkle57
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Please allow me to correct my previous entry, as the MIG in Driggs, Idaho is privately owned and not housed in the museum at the airport. I believe it must be stored in a private hangar. Sorry for the misinformation! It's still cool to see the MIG fly on occasion around the valley with the Teton, Big Hole and Snake River Ranges as background scenery!
A number of years ago the company I worked for was doing some runway renovations for an airport here in Tennessee. I had to go to a meeting at the Tennessee Department of Aviation and while waiting for it to start I looked over some brochures they had out. One was for the Tennessee Museum of Aviation in Sevierville,TN which really caught my eye sine I had no idea there was an aviation museum there.
The brochure had a picture of one of their exhibits that was a MIG-17 painted OD with with bright read US Air Force logos on it. I had no idea there were any MIG-17 aircraft in this country so I called them and asked about it. The man I talked with, and I have no idea of his name now, said that they did in fact have a MIG-17 in their inventory and they had it on display.
This I had to see so since Sevierville was only about 260 miles from home I decided that would make for a good motorcycle trip so I picked a Saturday and headed that way.They did in fact have a MIG-17 on display and photos of it are included below.
The photos are links to slightly larger photos on my web site. Click the image here to see the larger version.
Really cool little fighter and this article reminded me of it the minute I read it. Thanks for posting it.
The brochure had a picture of one of their exhibits that was a MIG-17 painted OD with with bright read US Air Force logos on it. I had no idea there were any MIG-17 aircraft in this country so I called them and asked about it. The man I talked with, and I have no idea of his name now, said that they did in fact have a MIG-17 in their inventory and they had it on display.
This I had to see so since Sevierville was only about 260 miles from home I decided that would make for a good motorcycle trip so I picked a Saturday and headed that way.They did in fact have a MIG-17 on display and photos of it are included below.
The photos are links to slightly larger photos on my web site. Click the image here to see the larger version.
Really cool little fighter and this article reminded me of it the minute I read it. Thanks for posting it.
Yeah, an unhappy surprise.