Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the very similar looking MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.

MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War. It was also briefly known as the Type 38 by USAF designation prior to the development of NATO reporting names.

Users

 * Afghanistan
 * Afghan Air Force
 * Albania
 * Albanian Air Force
 * Algeria
 * Algerian Air Force
 * Angola
 * Angolan Air Force
 * Bulgaria
 * Bulgarian Air Force
 * Burkina Faso
 * Burkina Faso Air Force
 * Cambodia
 * Khmer Air Force
 * Kampuchean Revolutionary Army
 * Royal Cambodian Air Force
 * People's Republic of China
 * People's Liberation Army Air Force
 * People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force
 * Republic of the Congo
 * Congolese Air Force
 * Cuba
 * Cuban Air Force
 * Czechoslovakia
 * Czechoslovakian Air Force
 * Egypt
 * Egyptian Air Force
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopian Air Force
 * East Germany
 * East German Air Force
 * Guinea-Bissau
 * Guinea-Bissau Air Force
 * Guinea-Conakry
 * Guinea-Conakry Air Force
 * Hungary
 * Hungarian Air Force
 * Indonesia
 * Indonesian Air Force
 * Iraq
 * Iraqi Air Force
 * Israeli
 * Israeli Air Force - captured aircraft
 * Madagascar
 * Malagasy Air Force
 * Mongolia
 * Mongolian People's Army Air Force
 * Morocco
 * Royal Moroccan Air Force
 * Mozambique
 * Mozambique Air Force
 * Nicaragua
 * Nicaraguan Air Force
 * Nigeria
 * Nigerian Air Force
 * Pakistan
 * Pakistan Air Force
 * Poland
 * Polish Air Force
 * Polish Navy
 * Romania
 * Romanian Air Force
 * Somalia
 * Somali Aeronautical Corps
 * Soviet Union
 * Soviet Air Force
 * Soviet Air Defense Forces
 * Soviet Naval Aviation
 * Sri Lanka
 * Sri Lankan Air Force
 * Syria
 * Syrian Arab Air Force
 * Uganda
 * Ugandan Air Force
 * United States
 * United States Air Force
 * Vietnam
 * Vietnam People's Air Force
 * Yemen
 * North Yemen Air Force

Related Development

 * Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
 * Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
 * PZL-Mielec Lim-6
 * Shenyang J-5

Comparable Aircraft

 * Dassault Mystère IV
 * Hawker Hunter
 * North American F-86 Sabre