Yakovlev Yak-17 - Operators

Operators

Bulgaria

• Bulgarian Air Force operated a small number of Yak-17UTI from 1951-1954.

Burkina Faso

• Burkina Faso Air Force Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta operated few aircraft both fighters & trainers from 1964-1970 (Remains unknown how they were acquired)

People's Republic of China

• People's Liberation Army Air Force one Yak-17UTI received for MiG-9 pilot training. Imported 43 Yak-17 from 1950-1951. Late, PLAAF used Yak-17 training pilots of La-9 and La-11 to refit MiG-15.

Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovak Air Force tested one Yak-17 aircraft.

Hungary

• Hungarian Air Force Operated Yak-17 from 1950-1956

Poland

• Polish Air Force operated three Yak-17 (transcribed as Jak-17) and 11 Yak-17UTI (known as Jak-17UTI or Jak-17W), from 1950 and were withdrawn by 1955.
• Instytut Lotnictwa received one Jak-17 from Polish Air Force and used it with civilian markings SP-GLM for tests between 1957 and 1960.

Romania

• Romanian Air Force operated nine Yak-17UTIs as trainers for the Yak-23s from 1951 until 1958

Soviet Union

• Soviet Air Force operated Yak-17 aircraft from 1948 to early 1950s.