Registration / Serial:C499
Aircraft Original Type:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Aircraft Generic Type:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Aircraft Version:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL
C/n (msn):
Operator Titles:India - Air Force
Unit Markings:8 Sqn. "Eight Pursoots"
City / Airport:Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (VIDP / DEL)Map
Country:India
Collection:Indian Air Force Museum (Palam)
Photo Date:8 January 2007
Photo by:Arjun SarupContact
Photo ID:617424Submit Correction
View count: 150
On display at IAF Museum Palam wearing the emblem of No. 8 Sqn "Eight Pursoots". First inducted into the IAF in April 1963, the MiG-21F-13 or Type 74 equipped No. 28 Sqn "First Supersonics" under Wg Cdr Dilbagh Singh. This was followed by the PF and finally the FL or Type 77, which was licence manufactured by HAL. The FL was used to good effect in the 1971 Indo-Pak War on both fronts. In the West, FLs from No. 47 Sqn "Black Archers" and No. 29 Sqn "Scorpions" shot down four PAF F-104s without loss, clearly besting the Starfighter. The last IAF FLs were decommissioned in Dec. 2013.
Registration / Serial:C499
Aircraft Version:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL
C/n (msn):
Operator Titles:India - Air Force
City / Airport:Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (VIDP / DEL)Map
Country:India
Photo Date:8 January 2007
Photo by:Arjun SarupContact
Registration / Serial:C499
Aircraft Original Type:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Aircraft Generic Type:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Aircraft Version:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL
C/n (msn):
Operator Titles:India - Air Force
Unit Markings:8 Sqn. "Eight Pursoots"
City / Airport:Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (VIDP / DEL)Map
Country:India
Collection:Indian Air Force Museum (Palam)
Photo Date:8 January 2007
Photo by:Arjun SarupContact
Photo ID:617424Submit Correction
View count: 150
On display at IAF Museum Palam wearing the emblem of No. 8 Sqn "Eight Pursoots". First inducted into the IAF in April 1963, the MiG-21F-13 or Type 74 equipped No. 28 Sqn "First Supersonics" under Wg Cdr Dilbagh Singh. This was followed by the PF and finally the FL or Type 77, which was licence manufactured by HAL. The FL was used to good effect in the 1971 Indo-Pak War on both fronts. In the West, FLs from No. 47 Sqn "Black Archers" and No. 29 Sqn "Scorpions" shot down four PAF F-104s without loss, clearly besting the Starfighter. The last IAF FLs were decommissioned in Dec. 2013.
Registration / Serial:C499
Aircraft Version:Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL
C/n (msn):
Operator Titles:India - Air Force
City / Airport:Delhi - Indira Gandhi International (VIDP / DEL)Map
Country:India
Photo Date:8 January 2007
Photo by:Arjun SarupContact