Moroccan MiG-17 Static Restoration Completed at the March Field Air Museum

Over the last several years, the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California has been retrieving aircraft from across the western half of the United States for restoration and display at their extensive collection parallel to the runway where F-16s, KC-135s, and C-17s can be regularly seen taking off for or landing from routine flights nearly every day. One of the latest of these restoration projects to have been completed is the museum’s newly-acquired Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO reporting name ‘Fresco’). Having been obtained from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA, the MiG is now on display alongside the museum’s other MiG fighters.

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