Polikarpov I-16 - Operators

Operators

China

• Chinese Nationalist Air Force

Nazi Germany

• Luftwaffe operated captured aircraft

Finland

• Finnish Air Force operated captured aircraft.

Mongolia

• Mongolian People's Army Aviation operated one I-16 used for training

Poland

• Polish Air Force operated one I-16 (1 Pulk Lotnictwa Myliwskiego) and two UTI-4 aircraft (15 Samodzielny Zapasowy Pulk Lotniczy and the Techniczna Szkola Lotnicza.

Romania

• Royal Romanian Air Force one captured aircraft, one I-16 was captured near Dorohoi in 1941.

Soviet Union

• Soviet Air Forces
• NKVD Air Forces

Spanish Republic

• Republican Spanish Air Force

Spanish State

• Spanish Nationalist Air Force operated I-16 and UTI-4 aircraft captured from the Spanish Republican Air Force, returned by French government and 30 built in Jerez de la Frontera. I-16s were still operated in 1952.
  • Group 1-W
  • 26th Group
  • Morón Fighter School