What's the version of this MiG-21 ?

[Laurent]

Hello.

I've found several pictures of an aircraft in Kiev's military museum.

http://rvvs.h1.ru/Planes/Show.php?p=...&s=mig21_0.jpg
http://www.aviamonuments.ru/planes/Ukraina/Kiev/6
http://www.xenophon-mil.org/ukraine/kiev/kivmus40.htm

Do you know what's the version of this MiG-21 ? Thank you for reading.

Laurent

[Laurent]

There are two pictures in Bill Gunston's Osprey monography of a similar plane. I believe it is the same but that it has been repainted with a new bort number since. One of the picture suggests (but nothing more: picture quality isn't great) that the flaps are of the Fowler type.

[Kasatka]

Looks like a late PF to me.
Reasons:
1. canopy
2. spine
3. The fin is of the late type with a parachute container.
4. exhaust

[Laurent]

Thank you Kasatka. I thought that all PFs had a small chord fin and parachute under the fuselage. I also thought that the GP-9 gun pod could only be used starting from the PFS or PFM (I don't remember which).

Laurent

[Котков Андрей]

At my look it is early PFM:
Large fin (PFS had small square fin, starting early PFM fin was large)

That is PFS , small fin has two edge axis, large fin - one.

[Laurent]

At my look it is early PFM:
Large fin (PFS had small square fin, starting early PFM fin was large)

Yes Андрей but according to the picture of Bill Gunston's book, the flaps look like Fowler flaps, not SPS ones. This would mean that early PFM didn't have SPS. Nice PFS picture by the way ! :D

Laurent