These walk-around photos were taken at Flygvapenmuseum at Malmen outside Linköping in 2022, where the aircraft is displayed suspended from the ceiling of the Cold War hall, directly above the museum's DC-3 exhibition. They show a WSK-Mielec Lim-2 (MiG-15bis), displayed in Soviet markings with red stars while retaining its Polish Air Force service number 215 — the only non-Swedish combat aircraft in Flygvapenmuseum's collection, and present for a very specific historical reason.
On 13 June 1952, a Swedish Air Force DC-3 on a signals intelligence mission over the Baltic Sea was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15. When a Catalina was sent to search for survivors, it too was attacked and forced down. The Soviet Union denied all involvement until 1991, when the truth was finally acknowledged. Flygvapenmuseum recovered the wreck of the DC-3 from the Baltic seabed in 2004, and it now forms the centrepiece of a dedicated exhibition. A Catalina — representing the search aircraft that was itself attacked — stands on the hall floor below, with the MiG-15 hanging above them both, giving the visitor the adversary's perspective and completing a remarkably affecting three-aircraft tableau.
The aircraft itself is a Lim-2, the Polish licence-built version of the Soviet MiG-15bis, manufactured by WSK Mielec and bearing the factory serial number 1B00215 — which corresponds directly to its service number 215 in the Polish Air Force. It has no direct connection to the 1952 incident, which involved a Soviet-operated aircraft, but as a representative of the type it serves its purpose with quiet authority.