MiG-21F-13
In September 1963 twelve MiG-21F-13s from batches 10 and 11 were delivered to 19 IAP of the BVVS. They received three-digit bort numbers of which the first digit was often changed to confuse Western observers. The last examples of this classic fighter were phased out with 26 RAP in 1988. The surviving examples had been modified to MiG-21F-13R fitted out with some recce-equipment. During their 25-year career only three examples were lost in accidents of which one was fatal. Between the mid-eighties and early nineties one F-13 went missing, it was probably scrapped at Uzundzhovo in an arms-reduction gesture made by the Bulgarian government (before the CFE-treaty came into effect). Another one was scrapped at Graf Ignatievo in 1994/1995.
Picture: bord 518 preserved at Raduil wearing the new roundel.
BVVS MiG-21F-13 numbers
This list is not complete: as soon as I receive permission to publish complete data it will be here!
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serialnumber
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bord
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delivery date
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remarks
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1013?
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513
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September 1963
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scrapped (or 512?)
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1015
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515
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September 1963
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Graf Ignatievo
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1016
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516
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September 1963
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Graf Ignatievo
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1018
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518
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September 1963
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Raduil
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1020
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520
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September 1963
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Graf Ignatievo
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1101
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501
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September 1963
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Krumovo Museum
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Note: In a hangar at Graf Ignatievo/TEREM seven unidentified MiG-21s are stored including one with a narrow tail (F-13 or PF). So another F-13 might have survived........
