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MALAYSIA

ڤرسكوتوان تانه مليسيا Persekutuan Tanah Malaysia (Federation of Malaysia)
Tendera Udara Diraja Malaysia (Malaysian Air Force)

Revised: August 2010

In service

Since 1995 up to day
Operational: up to 16

Quantity

1995: 16 MiG-29N* and 2 MiG-29NUB (and 2 x MiG-29NUB for ground personel training) from Russia
* Local name is M43
In total: 18 MiGs in 1995
Losses:
1998: 1 MiG-29 #M43-17 (19th Sqn)
2004: 1 MiG-29 (19th Sqn), engine fire

Units

17th and 19th Squadron, Kuantan (Sultan Ahmed Shah)
Emblem of one of them is a bat, second - a cobra. The aircrafts were exchanged between squadrons.

Bort numbers

MiG-29N: M43-03 M43-04 M43-05 M43-06 ...* M43-08 M43-09 M43-09 M43-11 M43-12 M43-13 M43-14 M43-15 M43-16 ...* M43-18
MiG-29NUB: M43-01 ...*
* I've seen only one NUB on photos: M43-01, never seen M43-02, M43-07, M43-17.

Remarks

* MiG-29N it's an export variant of the MiG-29SD, MiG-29NUB - export variant of the MiG-29UB.

Modernization in Malaysia since 1998. In-flight refueling probe installed.

In 2006 photos of MiG-29NUB, using by Strizhi aerobatic team with blue number #80 on air intakes and with traces of Malaysian markings "M43-10". What it mean? All the time (1998-2005) number "M43-10" was on one-seater MiG-29N!

Malaysian MiGs were in standard grey-green camouflage with low-visibility markings, about 2005-2006 they are overhauled and repainted in overall grey with colourful markings.


MiG-29N (M43) #05, Malaysia 1995.


MiG-29N (M43) #05, Malaysia 2005.


MiG-29N (M43) #10, Malaysia 2005.


MiG-29N (M43) #18, Malaysia 2007.

Aircraft drawings © Mariusz Wojciechowski 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Słupsk (Poland)