MiG-15 licence builds (Czech S-102/S-103/CS-102, Polish Lim-1/Lim-2, Chinese J-2/JJ-2)
MiG-15s made outside the USSR — Aero in Czechoslovakia, WSK-Mielec in Poland and Shenyang in China · Licence production from 1952 (Poland) · 1953 (Czechoslovakia)
Licence production added at least 4,180 MiG-15s to the 13,130 built in the Soviet Union. Poland's WSK-Mielec began in 1952 with the Lim-1, a basic MiG-15 (227 built), followed by 500 Lim-2s based on the MiG-15bis, and also produced the SBLim two-seat trainers. In Czechoslovakia Aero Vodochody started in 1953 and built 821 S-102s (MiG-15), 620 S-103s (MiG-15bis) and more than 2,000 CS-102 trainers.
In China the MiG-15bis served as the J-2, and the Shenyang works built the two-seat JJ-2, with estimates ranging from 120 to 500. When the J-2s were retired, some were exported under the designation 'F-2'.
Polish and Czech aircraft were sturdy and plentiful, and many were sold to private owners after the Cold War. Lim-2s and SBLim-2s now fly from Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, often in their original Polish markings.
