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HISTORY
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remained on the aircraft the shortest time.
The unit CO ordered its immediate removal
on rst noticing it. The only trace left of it
was a resulting spot resulting from the remo-
val process. The Eduard knight persisted...!
As of October, 1993, MiG-21 ‘5303‘
found itself serving with the 28th sbolp (Fi-
ghter-Bomber Squadron), which had its base
at Caslav. The change in ownership was also
reected in the aircraft’s appearance. The
Eduard knight disappeared, and the inscrip-
tion ‘Lovec Tygru’ received a yellow-black
coloring, and the winged skull changed sli-
ghtly in appearance and color.
The remnant silhouettes of the removed
artwork were very evident on the aircraft.
They were usually applied with oil-based
markers. The aircraft was then covered with
a clear coat. The removal process of the
markings was not survived by the clear, and
it had protected the underlying sheens which
than formed the basis of the remnant spots.
Above the ‘Lovec Tygru’ inscription, the
sticker type insignia of one of the RAF’s Cze-
choslovak squadrons, specically, No.312
Sqdn was placed. The sticker type markings
on Czechoslovak aircraft at the beginning of
the nineties were rather common. They usua-
lly didn’t last very long, though, as they were