# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktor-belenko
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:43:43.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viktor-belenko"
name: "Viktor Belenko"
slug: "viktor-belenko"
description: "Viktor Ivanovich Belenko was a Soviet-born American aerospace engineer and pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 \"Foxbat\" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an \"intelligence bonanza\" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. aerospace engineer."
tagline: "Soviet MiG-25 pilot who defected to the West"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Viktor_Belenko%E2%80%99s_military_identification_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1947-02-15"
deathDate: "2023-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.60434237360505
  historical:           21.67133333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 243
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump