In the extraordinarily lovingly designed museum at the former base of flying training wing FAG-15 and today's Rothenburg / Görlitz airfield, numerous documents, devices and items of equipment are displayed alongside 20 aircraft and 22 engines. During the guided tour by the association's chairman Hans Sagawe, the author's attention was of course focused on the MiG-21 exhibits, a selection of which is shown below.
A total of seven MiG-21s are displayed at Rothenburg. The aircraft that used to fly at the base include US 236 ...
... and U-600 296.
bis SAU 838 comes from Marxwalde.
MF-75 784 used to belong to fighter wing JG-3 ...
... and is shown in the museum with a UPK-250 gun pod, which according to the museum could be used at least by some Arab MiG-21s.
MiG-21M 581 last flew with the reconnaissance squadron TFS-47.
MiG-21PFM 545 came to FAG-15 at Rothenburg as late as 1989 ...
... and belongs to the sub-version designated SPS-K in the GDR, which could carry the GP-9 gun pod.
After a "belly landing" the nose was repaired at the Dresden aircraft repair works.
MiG-21F-13 623 was built at Gorky, was one of the first aircraft delivered to the East German Air Force and was retired as early as 1985.
The museum's engine collection includes both an R11 ...
... and an SPRD-99 rocket booster.
Besides numerous original display boards, many artefacts are shown in the exhibition hall.
The MiG-21 cockpit section on display ...
... comes from an Iraqi bis SAU.
In front of it the radar antenna is shown.
The armament on display includes cutaway models of the R-3S and RS-2US missiles, ...
... the NR-30 ...
... and GSh-23 guns as well as ...
... cutaway models of the UB-16 rocket pod and ...
... the associated S-5 unguided rocket.
Equipment on display includes pilots' and technicians' helmets, ...
... KM-1 ejection seats with ...
... and without a pilot dummy, ...
... as well as the SK seat with associated canopy.
Also on display are a gun camera, ...
... SARPP-12 flight data recorders, ...
... a pitot tube ...
... and a brake chute.
Flying clothing variants, such as sea survival, ...
