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Mig-21 defection Stories
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Regarding article about the KP
1/72 YAF Mig-21R with the defecting
Croatian Pilot, I would like to add, that this remarkable story has indeed
happened when a pilot of the
JRViPVO, Capt. Rudolf Peresin defected on 25 October 1991 with his MiG-21R
"26212" to Graz-Tallerhof, in Austria, requesting political asylum.
The aircraft - the serial of which was overpainted by Austrian authorities
immediately after the landing - was eventually impounded and remains in Austrian
hands, but Peresin was permitted to return to Croatia, where he joined the HRZ.
The aircraft is still in Austria and after Capt. Peresin, note worthy three
more Croatian pilots defected with their Mig-21Bis fighters to Croatia
in 1992 to Pula AFB, Zagreb AFB
and Split AFB respectively. During Croatian Offensive “Flash”, again rebel
Serbian terorists, MiG-21bis, reportedly serialled "119" in HRZ, and
flown by Maj. Rudolf Peresin
(the same pilot who flew his MiG-21R to
Igor