This Viggen last served with Flygflottilj 21 ‘Norbotten’ at Luleå-Kallax in Northern Sweden. Previously 37901 had served F13 at Norrköping and F10 at Ångelholm.
On 19 May 1951, the Rolls-Royce Nene-powered Machtrainer prototype S.14/2 (PH-NDY) made her maiden flight from Amsterdam-Schiphol, in a KLu c/s and marked ‘K-1’. The aircraft transferred to the NLR in August 1961, registered PH-XIV.
Seen here, devoid of her NVA-LSK marks, ‘473’, one of 52 Typ 94K SPS-Ks, with a GP-9 gun pod under the centre line, entered service with JG-1 at Cottbus-Nord in April 1968, before transfer to the Militärtechnische Schule at Bad Düben as GIA in 1971.
TaktLwG. 71"R" "Living the Spirit" special scheme - on the right side of the tail TLG73 markings are added as TLG71 currently resides at Laage Airbase.
TaktLwG. 71"R" "Living the Spirit" special scheme - on the right side of the tail TLG73 markings are added as TLG71 currently resides at Laage Airbase.
TaktLwG. 71"R" "Living the Spirit" special scheme - on the right side of the tail TLG73 markings are added as TLG71 currently resides at Laage Airbase.