Here are a few aircraft we stumbled across 7/4/2003 at Baghdad International Airport.
The propeller driven aircraft is an Antonov An2 transport/utility plane designed in the late 1940s.
The two jets are MiG 17s, designed in the early 1950 based off the MiG 15 from Korean War fame.
Somewhere I have photos of MiG 25s that the Iraqis buried in the sand, thinking after the initial “Shock and Awe” they would dig them up and later engage the Allied air forces.
These planes weren’t destroyed as a part of the combat phase but aircraft that were scrapped earlier and dragged to the outskirts of the airport.
