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HISTORY
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MiG-29A, Lt.Col. Robert Cierniak, CO of No.1 Squadron of
Tactical Air Force, Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, 2005-2007
This MiG-29 was own by Lt.Col. Robert ‘Skuter’
Cierniak, who served as CO of No. 1 ‘Warsza-
wa’ Squadron of Tactical Air Force from Decem-
ber 22, 2005 to October 30, 2007. The four-
-leaf clover, painted on both sides of the front
of the aircraft, was a personal emblem. This
aircraft also took part in the Polish military con-
tingent ‘Orlik’, which operated in 2006 from the
Lithuanian base at Zoknia. The purpose was to
patrol the airspace over the Baltic states, Lithu-
ania, Latvia and Estonia. This role is represented
by the emblem on the vertical tail surfaces. The
marking on the left side of the fuselage below
the cockpit is that of the 7th Squadron ‘Tadeusz
Kosciuszko’, which was a unit ghting against Ru-
ssian bolsheviks during the Soviet-Polish conict
in 1919-1920. The core of the unit was made up
of American pilots. This aircraft was delivered in
1990. The camouage scheme consisting of two
shades of grey was applied during moderniza-
tion in Poland in the rst decade on the twenty
rst century.
(Photo: Karel Krejčí)
BUY 1157 MiG-29A 1/48