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MiG-19 | |
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MiG-19S in the National Museum of United States Air Force | |
Role | Fighter aircraft |
National origin | Soviet Union |
Manufacturer | Mikoyan-Gurevich |
First flight | 24 May 1952 (SM-2/I-360) |
Introduction | March 1955 |
Status | Retired; chinese license-build J-6 in limited use by some foreign countries |
Primary users | Soviet Air Forces (historical) People's Liberation Army Air Force (historical) |
Produced | 1954–1968 |
Number built | 2,172 (excluding production in Czechoslovakia and China) |
Developed from | Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 |
Variants | Shenyang J-6 |
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-19; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight. A comparable U.S. "Century Series" fighter was the North American F-100 Super Sabre, although the MiG-19 primarily fought against the more modern McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Republic F-105 Thunderchief over North Vietnam.[1] This aircraft was originally used by the Soviet Union but it was later used by the People's Liberation Army Air Force of China.