Operators
- Afghanistan
- Afghan Air Force. 42, including 38 MiG-15UTI, were delivered to the Royal Afghan Air Force from 1951, serving through 1979.
- Albania
- Albanian Air Force. 80 or more have served with the Albanian Air Force since 1955, including Soviet, Czechoslovak and Chinese-built examples. The initial allotment of 10 MiG-15 fighters delivered in 1955 was followed by 24 MiG-15UTI trainers from that year on. These were supplemented by Czechoslovak Avia CS-102 trainers, with four being acquired. Further fighter deliveries comprised 26 MiG-15bis examples. Once Albania switched to Chinese support, deliveries of 24 F-2 fighters and 15 FT-2 trainers commenced from 1965. These aircraft remained in service through the late 1990s.
- Algeria
- Algerian Air Force
- Angola
- People's Air and Air Defence Force of Angola
- Bulgaria
- Bulgarian Air Force 78+
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cambodian Air Force
- People's Republic of China
- People's Liberation Army Air Force
- People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force
Imported 654 Mig-15 fighters from October 1950 to 1951. The last 18 Mig-15 fighters retired in 1980. Imported 1460 Mig-15bis fighters from 1952 to 1955. The Mig-15bis retired in 1986. Imported 357 Mig-15UTI trainers from 1951 to 1958. China also refitted some Mig-15 and Mig-15bis fighters to trandem trainers. Mig-15UTI retired in 1986.
- Republic of the Congo
- Congolese Air Force
- Cuba
- Cuban Air Force
- Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovak Air Force
- East Germany
- East German Air Force
- Egypt
- Egyptian Air Force
- Finland
- Finnish Air Force. Only operated the MiG-15UTI.
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Military of Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- Hungarian Air Force
- Indonesia
- Indonesian Air Force. Acquired its MiG-15s in 1961. Used MiG-15UTI and other MiG-15 as trainers during the preparation of Operation Trikora in 1962 in Western New Guinea (now Papua and West Papua). The aircraft were grounded in 1969 and removed from service in 1970.
- Iraq
- Iraqi Air Force
- Khmer Republic
- Khmer National Air Force
- Libya
- Libyan Air Force
- Madagascar
- Mali
- 1 MiG-15 UTI trainer
- Mongolia
- Mongolian Air Force. deliveried and operated 4 MiG-15UTI as a trainer in 1970 .
- Morocco
- Royal Moroccan Air Force
- Mozambique
- Military of Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Nigerian Air Force operated MiG-15UTI as a trainer.
- North Korea
- North Korean Air Force. Still operates MiG-15UTI as a trainer.
- North Vietnam
- Vietnam People's Air Force
- North Yemen
- Pakistan
- Pakistan Air Force
- Poland
- Polish Air Force
- Polish Navy
- Romania
- Romanian Air Force. Operated a total of 514 MiG-15, MiG-15bis, MiG-15 UTI, S-102 and CS-102 from 1952 until 1992
- Somalia
- Somali Air Corps
- South Yemen
- South Yemen Air Force
- Soviet Union
- Soviet Air Force
- Soviet Anti-Air Defence
- Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka Air Force
- Sudan
- Sudanese Air Force
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Syrian Air Force
- Tanzania
- Tanzanian Air Force
- Uganda
- Ugandan Air Force
- United States
- United States Air Force. In the 1980s, the United States purchased a number of Shenyang J-4s along with Shenyang J-5s from China via the Combat Core Certification Professionals Company; these aircraft were employed in a "mobile threat test" program at Kirtland Air Force Base, operated by the 4477th "Red Hats" Test and Evaluation Squadron of the United States Air Force.
- Viet Nam
- Vietnam People's Air Force
- Yemen
- Yemen Air Force
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