MIKOYAN MiG-17 (NX217SH)

Beautiful picture John!

Great picture. That was my favorite performer at the air show.

That is a great big WOW!

Type designator is MG17

Isn't it MiG 17?
Excellent photograph!

Herbert Zigler, MiG 17 does represent the make & model of the aircraft, as it were. However the "type designator" or nomenclature used in flight plans and flight data communications is limited to 4 characters. Hence "MG17" as the type desidigbator.

Wonderful Photo John !!
5 Stars

Great pic. Love the MG17 most attractive jet of that era!

GREAT SHOT! (Love the tailpipe signature)

Thanks' guys. type designation fixed!

Thanks' guys. type designation fixed!

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco)[1] is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the very similar appearing MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.

MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War. It was also briefly known as the Type 38 by U.S. Air Force designation prior to the development of NATO codes.