Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
| MiG-19 | |
|---|---|
| MiG-19S in the National Museum of the United States Air Force | |
| General information | |
| Type | Fighter aircraft |
| National origin | Soviet Union |
| Manufacturer | Mikoyan-Gurevich |
| 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) |
| Number built | 2,172 (excluding production in Czechoslovakia and China) |
| History | |
| Manufactured | 1954–1968 |
| Introduction date | March 1955 |
| First flight | 24 May 1952 (SM-2/I-360) |
| 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. This aircraft was originally used by the Soviet Union but it was later used by the People's Liberation Army Air Force of China.