MiG-15bis 602 in Flight

The MiG-15bis numbered 602 makes a low pass during its display at the 2025 SHG Airshow in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir, with its underwing fuel tanks still fitted. Designed in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, the MiG-15 combined swept wings with a powerful centrifugal-flow jet engine, giving it outstanding climb and high-altitude performance for its time. Thousands were built in the Soviet Union and under licence in Poland, Czechoslovakia and China. Watching one fly today, more than seventy years after its first flight, is a rare chance to see a true first-generation jet fighter in the air.