All NVA aircraft got Luftwaffe serials.
Including the ones which went straight into storage: MiG-21, MiG-23, Su-22 (although a few of these were retained for trials at WTD61 at Manching for a few years), L29 (not sure if any remained in NVA service by 1990 though), L39, An-2, Z43, Mi-14.
Main reason for their retirement was lack of NATO interoperability, and the fact that they simply weren’t needed. Spares were not an issue in 1990; there were still plenty of spares around, and Dresden was a main hub for MiG-21 overhaul anyway. The spares issue only really happened after the Soviet Union broke up on dec31, 1991. That’s well over a year later.
The MiG-29 remained operational and did have an air defense mission (DACT was a secondary task) with JG73 at Laage. They were modified to MiG-29G standard to make them comply with NATO standards, and they were sold to Poland in 2004 where they are in service now.
The transport aircraft were retained both because they were useful (only long-range transports the Luftwaffe had were four old 707s), and because they became instant commuting aircraft for civil servants by the time the capital moved from Bonn to Berlin. The IL-62s, L410s and Tu-154s were used for this. Some of the Mi-8s might have been as well.
The MiG-17 was retired well before the reunification.
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