The Mig-21 was originally built by the Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union with a NATO nickname Fishbed. No other jet has had as many planes produced as the Mig-21. Depending on the reference source 8,000 - 13,000 planes of all versions were made in the Soviet Union, under license to allied countries and China without license. A small, fast, agile, dependable and most importantly simple making it easy to turn out great numbers of the plane. Red 6910 c/n 94A6910 was delivered to the 34th Fighter Air Regiment (34th Pulk Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego) on April 5, 1968. Later the aircraft went to the 62nd Fighter Regiment and given a paint scheme marking the 40th anniversary of the unit in 1994. In mid January 1994 the 62nd would be renamed the 3rd Fighter Regiment of Poznań. The aircraft was retired and placed on display and later sold to a German shopping mall where it hangs from an interior roof and painted light blue.
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