MiG-17f (Fresco) Cuba Air Force
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The most famous event of the Cubans MiG-17 went the desertion of one of its pilots to United States.
This happened October 5, 1969, when the Lieutenant Eduardo Guerra Jimenez lands
in the Florida in the MiG-17AS N°232. Guerra Jimenez was one of the Squadrons Leaders of the Santa Clara MiG-17AS
Regiment, and he was testing that MiG-17 that was repaired, to leave then to the smaller rank pilots.
Guerra lands in the Homestead AFB, Florida, surprisely Americans. In that moment in the base was found the personal Boeing-707 of the US President Lindon Johnson, and that incident shows its vulnerability to the Americans. This serious incident provokes debates in the Congress, where the Republican Robert F. Sikes uses it as strong argument in favor of the Radar Program AWACS. After this desertion, is produced a great purge in the FAR, being expelled 232
dozens of pilot friends of Guerra Jimenez or with relatives abroad. The MiG-17 was returned to Cuba, and as says some sources, the transportation airplane that come to return it with the team of specialists of the DAAFAR, "accidentally" overflight
various sensitive points as the Nuclear Plant of Turkey Point. The Captain Rafael del Pino was the responsible for the mission of return the aircraft, and the pilot Raul Perez James of flying it in return to Cuba.
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