The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17) is a jet fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. Licence production was carried out in East Germany, Poland (PZL-Mielec Lim-6) and the Peoples Republic of China (Shenyang J-5). USAF/DoD reporting name “Type 38″, NATO reporting name “Fresco”.