cubanairforce

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Dale M. McDonald at Key West Naval Air Station with Cuban MIG-21 after its pilot defected

from Florida Memory

  • Kevin said:
    Funny, even though these are still in active service in some countries, they are now considered sport aircraft.
  • Dusty_73 said:
    I wonder how many Cuban pilots have made that dash for freedom across the Florida straights? Very interesting.

Mig-17 Fresco

from SDASM Archives

  • Timespanr said:
    Sorry not a "Fagot", that is a MiG-15, it is a Fresco
  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    This is the one which defected to Florida some time during the 1960's Stig

Cuban MIG over Florida Straits

from Florida Memory

  • wbeem said:
    NAS Key West must've been sleeping that day.
  • Cory McDonald said:
    He came up to check out a navy P-3 enroute to NAS Key West. Cory
  • Cory McDonald said:
    close this box.

Cuban MIG-23BN Flogger-H departing Key West Naval Air Station

from Florida Memory

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • TVL1970 said:
    This is a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23BN Flogger-H (see note on photo).
  • Florida Memory said:
    TVL1970 Thanks for the information. We'll update our catalog record.
  • updara said:
    great
  • Dusty_73 said:
    Wow! Very interesting. I'd presume the Cuban pilot had defected and he nor the plane weren't ever going back to Cuba. I'd be curious where this jet ended up.
  • mambo1935 said:
    grace!