I used to drive to and from Dallas fairly often. Off US 80, between I-635 and I-20 at Terrill, on the north side, there’s a parking lot and in a grassy part near the chain link fence, there’s a MIG with Soviet markings. Does anyone know if it’s a MIG-15 or a MIG-17?
Very hard to tell the difference between a MiG-15 and -17. I am pretty sure it’s a 15, though.
If that’s the plane, and if this guy is right, it looks more like a 17.
. It’s also a bit longer, to make room for the afterburner (the MiG-15 was dry), but it’s not easy to tell casually.
Yep, that’s the one. One thing that I thought might be a giveaway was that the rudder is split to avoid contact with the elevators, but I couldn’t find any images a tail view of a 17 to let me see if they had that also. So, I guess it’s a 15.
I’m pretty sure it’s a -17.
The triple fences on the wing is the dead giveaway.
MIG-17.
Three wing fences. That’s the most obvious external difference. Also the leading edge isn’t straight; it has a slight kink between the two outboard fences.
If you see a -15 & -17 side by side the -17 is a distinctly less chubby and the fuselage aft of the wing is a bunch longer. A -15 looks like Kim Jong Un; corpulent and overfed. But if you haven’t seen a lot of these aircraft those differences are pretty subtle.
No doubt that’s a -17 and the info on that geoview.info page is wrong. Close, but wrong.
Okay. I never had long to look at it as I was going by at 60 mph and working on keeping a Freightliner in its lane.
It’s a -17, owned by De Ridder Antiques. The town is Forney.
You should stop in sometime, the place is a trip – half antiques store, half prop warehouse, has a bunch of creepy old amusement park statues and other nonstandard antiques store fare.