One of the last chances to see active MiG-21s. Now they are all stored awaiting their fate.

Seen at an early International Air Tattoo, the forerunner of RIAT

Preserved at the French naval academy near the old seaplane base at Lanvéoc - Poulmic, together with Super Étendard No 57. It was a long wait for a boat back across the bay to Brest after the open day here, but the navy kindly supplied water and rations for the people on the jetty, and I fondly remember this unusual airshow day. No 51 was removed from here during the closing months of 2016.

There were many special schemes amongst the frustrated visitors to that year's RIAT, cancelled because of waterlogging after torrential rainfall, but the arctic tiger job on this 28F N.262 was one of the most eye-catching