Survivors
Many MiG-15s are on display through the world. In addition, they are becoming increasingly common as private sport planes and warbirds. According to the FAA, there were 43 privately owned MiG-15s in the US in 2011, including Chinese and Polish derivatives.
Australia
- Air Combat Australia utilised 2 MiG-15's for adventure flights from 1997, when they originated the adventure flight industry, to 2005 when they upgraded to 4 L-39C Albatros'.
Bulgaria
- One MiG-15 is on display in Sofia at the National Museum of Military History.
Cuba
- A MiG-15UTI of the FAR (Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria) is displayed at the Museo del Aire.
Poland
- FlyFighterJet.com offers a Lim-2/MiG-15UTI for adventure flights in Poland
Romania
- A Romanian MiG-15 is on display in Bucharest, Romania at the Army Museum.
UK
- A Polish-built MiG-15 is displayed in North Korean colours at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
- An S-102 in Czechoslovakian colours is displayed at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Edinburgh.
USA
- MiG-15 (c/n 2015357) is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. This is the aircraft flown to Kimpo Air Base in South Korea on 21 September 1953 by a defecting North Korean pilot who was given a reward of $100,000 (see above). The aircraft was flight-tested on Okinawa and then brought to the U.S. to be returned to its "rightful owners" (believed to be the Soviet Union, which denied participating in the Korean War). When this offer was ignored it was transferred to the United States Air Force Museum in November 1957. It is on display in the Museum's Modern Flight gallery.
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“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
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—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)