page_title: Yakovlev Yak-17
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Yakovlev Yak-17 / Operators
caption_attribution_description: Jak-17 UTI
context_page_description: The Yakovlev Yak-17 was an early Soviet jet fighter. It was developed from the Yak-15, the primary difference being tricycle landing gear. The trainer version, known as the Yak-17UTI, was the only Soviet jet trainer of the 1940s. Both aircraft were exported in small numbers and the Yak-17 was soon replaced by the far superior Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 beginning in 1950.
context_section_description:  Bulgaria
  Bulgarian Air Force operated a small number of Yak-17UTI from 1951-1954.
   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.
   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operated three Yak-17 (transcribed as Jak-17) and 11 Yak-17UTI (known as Jak-17UTI or Jak-17W), from 1950 and were withdrawn by 1955.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.
caption: Yak-17UTI in the Polish Aviation Museum
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