Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

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MiG-19
MiG-19S in the National Museum of 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.^[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.