Aircraft On Display
There are several museums in Russia that display MiG-29s:
- Three are displayed at the Central Air Force Museum in Monino near Moscow. The first two are a prototype and an early production model (both with ventral fins), and the third is a MiG-29KVP
- MiG-29 "9–13" is on display of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow on the Poklonnaya Hill
- A MiG-29, Red 02 is on display at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow
Several MiG-29s are on display in Europe:
- One MiG-29 is on display at the Muzeum Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw, Poland.
- Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków has a MiG-29, which served in the Polish Air Force.
- One MiG-29 is on display in Germany. The only remaining German MiG-29G (29+03) was on display in Laage before being moved to the Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr in Berlin's Gatow Airport in 2006 as part of the exhibition "50 Jahre Luftwaffe".
- No. 67 (MiG-29 Sniper proto) is on display at the Romania Muzeul Aviatiei, Bucharest.
- The second MiG-29UB prototype (9–52) is on display at the Riga Aviation Museum, in Riga, Latvia. After 213 test flights around Moscow between 23 August 1982 and 10 April 1986, it was disassembled and parts of the wings and tails were re-used in prototype (9–16). The remains were shipped to Riga Military Aviation Engineers High School, and later handed over to the Riga Aviation Museum in 1994, where it is currently displayed. The remains of this prototype is in a very bad condition, with open fuselage panels and a partly broken canopy and open cockpit that exposes the airframe to inclement weather.
MiG-29s are currently on display in the United States at the following locations:
- Goodfellow AFB in Texas
- NAS Fallon Airpark in Nevada
- Two MiG-29s in Soviet and Moldavian colors are on display at Nellis AFB in Nevada. One MiG-29 in better shape is inside a hangar alongside a MiG-23.
- For several years an early MiG 29A (s/n 2960516761) was stored in a restoration hangar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton, Ohio. In June 2007 the aircraft was put on display in the Cold War Gallery of the Museum and continues to receive minor upgrading while on display. It was formerly assigned to the 234th Gvardeiskii Istrebitelnii Aviatsionnii Polk (234th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment) stationed at Kubinka (air base) near Moscow. This aircraft was one of six MiG-29s that made a good will visit to Kuopio-Rissala, Finland, in July 1986, an event that marked the first public display of the MiG-29.
- One former Moldovan MiG-29S is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
- A MiG-29 is on display near the entrance at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
- One MiG-29 is on display at NAS Fallon.
- A MiG-29 from the former Moldovan group is on display at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, painted in Russian markings.
- One MiG-29UB is on display at the NASIC headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
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