Main page "Colours ot the MiG-29 (Fulcrum)"
Revised: November 2023 SLOVAKIASlovensko (Slovakia)
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Not in service |
Vzdušné sily ozbrojených síl Slovenskej Republiky (Air Force of the Forces of the Slovak Republic) between 1992 and 2022 |
Deliveries |
1992: 9 MiG-29 (9-12A) and 1 MiG-29UB (9-51) from Czechoslovakia inheritance
Losses: 4 MiG-29 lost in accidents 13 aircraft were modernized since 2001 in Slovakian aircraft repair and manufacturing company Letecké Opravovne Trenčín LOT to MiG-29AS and MiG-29UBS standard. All of them were withdrawn from service - a ceremony to bid them farewell took place during the SIAF show in August/September 2022 (AS: 6124, 3911, 0921 and 5304 UBS). At the beginning of 2023 13 operable aircraft were handed over to the Ukrainian Air Force (4 in March 2023 and 9 in April 2023); not sure what happened to some of the non-upgraded stored aircraft (it's said that three will be used as a source of spare parts). Please note that at the same time, Poland also handed over some of its MiGs to Ukraine. |
Units |
Letecká základňa generálmajora Otta Smika, Sliač, Tri Duby (Air Base named after general major Otto Smik, Sliač, airfield Tri Duby)
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Camouflage and painting |
First batch inherited from Czechoslovakia when the federation "take a divorce". All aircraft were in darkgreen-greeen-brown-sand camouflage, even MiG-29UB #4401.
Second batch of MiGs are from Russian air force inventory as debts payment. It's not version 9-12A! They can carry external fuel tanks under wings. Standard MiG's grey-greenish camouflage.
Overhauls in Slovakian aircraft repair and manufacturing company Letecké Opravovne Trenčín LOT:
2004-2007: 13 aircraft were overhauled in cooperation with RSK MiG and then upgraded to so called MiG-29AS and MiG-29UBS standard, with Russian and Western equipment.
Aircraft #0921 was painted in December 2007 in spectacular digital pattern created by Canadian civilian research enterprise. Camouflage pattern is named Digital Thunder™, developed in 2006 by the design team of Dr. Timothy R. O'Neill and Guy Cramer from HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp., Maple Ridge, BC, Canada.
Also modernized in 2007 #0619 in 2008 was painted in even more extravagant camouflage pattern called Cloudcam™, developed in 2005 by the same team. In January 2008 its fins was painted in Slovakian national colours for 15th anniversary of the Slovak Air Force, soon fins were repainted in Cloudcam. Then aircraft #0921 was repainted in 2009 to Cloudcam and both gets false canopies on the undersides. Painted in Trenčín.
In 2012 big tigers were painted on fins #0921 and #5304 (in fact printed on adhesive foil). From first aircraft tiger were later (before 2017) removed, and on second replaced by new different tiger in August 2014.
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product | s/n | b/n | camouflage | 2022 status |
9-51A, former CSRS | N50903013244 | 4401 | 4-tone standard -> repainted in 2001 in Trenčín | upgraded to MiG-29UBS |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960526375 | 7501 | 4-tone standard -> plus stripes in national colours | not in service after overriding 10g in flight |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960526380 | 8003 | 4-tone standard | war museum in Praha-Kbely (Prague) |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960526386 | 8605 | 4-tone standard | not in service |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960526393 | 9308 | 4-tone standard | not in service |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960532037 | 3709 | 4-tone standard -> repainted in 2004 in Trenčín | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960532039 | 3911 | 4-tone standard -> repainted in 2004 in Trenčín | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960532351 | 5113 | 4-tone standard | not in service |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960532358 | 5817 | 4-tone standard | not in service |
9-12A, former CSRS | 2960532355 | 5515 | 4-tone standard | not in service |
9-51, second batch | N50903028113 | 1303 | 2-tone standard -> overall low-vis "white tiger" painting in nineties | upgraded to MiG-29UBS |
9-51, second batch | N50903028253 | 5304 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29UBS |
9-12, second batch | 2960535406 | 0619 | 2-tone standard -> 2008 Cloudcam™ pattern | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960535408 | 0820 | 2-tone standard | not in service |
9-12, second batch | 2960535409 | 0921 | 2-tone standard -> 2007 Digital Thunder™ pattern -> 2008 or 2009 Cloudcam™ pattern | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960536020 | 2022 | 2-tone standard | burned down after engine accident while take-off |
9-12, second batch | 2960536021 | 2123 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960536061 | 6124 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960536064 | 6425 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960536065 | 6526 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29AS crashed 28 September 2019 near Zlaté Moravce during training flight due to fuel lack. Pilot survived. |
9-12, second batch | 2960536066 | 6627 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960536067 | 6728 | 2-tone standard | upgraded to MiG-29AS |
9-12, second batch | 2960536068 | 6829 | 2-tone standard -> 2001 "white tiger" in front of the fuselage | crashed in 2002, collision with #6930 |
9-12, second batch | 2960536069 | 6930 | 2-tone standard | crashed 2002, collision with #6829 |
Colours of the MiG-29 (МиГ-29). Worldwide aircraft Mikoyan & Gurevich MiG-29 (Fulcrum) camouflage and painting schemes MiG-29 MiG-29S MiG-29UB MiG-29M MiG-29M2 MiG-29UBT MiG-29SD MiG-29N MiG-29NUB MiG-29K MiG-29KUB MiG-29AS MiG-29G MiG-29GT MiG-29BM MiG-29SM MiG-29SE MiG-29SMT MiG-29UPG MiG-29SMP MiG-29OVT MiG-35 All aircraft drawings Mariusz Wojciechowski 2005-2023, Słupsk (Poland) mariusz@mariwoj.pl Everyone can use drawings for free, if leaving author's name and logo |