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 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.While the MiG-15bis introduced swept wings to air combat over Korea, the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau had already begun work on its replacement in 1949 (originally the MiG-15bis45) in order to fix any problems found with the MiG-15 in combat. The result was one of the most successful transonic fighters introduced before the advent of true supersonic types such as the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 and North American F-100 Super Sabre. The design would ultimately still prove effective into the 1960s when pressed into subsonic dogfights over Vietnam against much faster planes which were not optimized for maneuvering in such slower speed, short-range engagements.

Kit Contents:

•  Plane model
•  Assembly instructions 
•  Russian Air Force: Moscow Air Base 1962.
•  Adhesive for plastic models with a brush
•  Polish Air Force: Modlin Air Base 1962.
•  Romanian Air Force: Brasov Air Base
•  Hungarian Air Force: Keckement Air Base
•  Bulgarian Air Force: Plovdiv Air Base
•  German Air Force: Berlin-Tempelhof Air Base
•  Czech Air Force: Pardubice Air Bas