Former ejection seat test bed, mostly as OK-016. Built in 1964 and delivered in 1965. Last flight in May 1997 with some 1350 hours and 3050 landings on the airframe. Brought here in smart VZLU livery with serial 0816, early August 2012. Later mostly grey and by 2017 these hideous colours started to be put on. The wording Svět Techniky Ostrava and S-T logo on the nose indicate the location: the Science and Technology Centrum at the old steel furnaces in Ostrava-Vítkovice.

Luftwaffe serial after German re-unification was 23-88

ex East Germany Air Force 237

Two-seat variant of the MiG-21, making this a "Mongol".

This Mongol-A became '2389' upon German re-unification and is now on display at the splendid Technikmuseum Hugo Junkers, having recently undergone a refurbishment. It has emerged from the workshop wearing with this new bare metal NVA scheme (presumably having worn this sometime during its service life).

serial after unification 23+89

Ex Czechoslovakia Air Force 0816. Now used for ejection seat trials.The mannikin in the rear seat would be ejected in a demo flight later that day.

This Mongol-A was delivered to the Czechoslovak AF in April 1965 as 0816. In the late 1980s or early 1990s it was transferred to the VZLU and was adapted to test ejection seats as OK-016. It was retired in May 1997 and is now on display in the grounds of the Vítkovice Machinery Group Museum ('Svět techniky Ostrava / Dolni Vitkovice dnes' can be translated as ''World of Tecnology Ostrava / Lower Vitkovice Today).

Isn't that miraculous? The hammer, compass and wreath of rye emblem of East German communism has weathered into the golden arches of global capitalism.