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List of Mil Mi-8/17 operators

The following nations currently operate (or formerly owned) Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters in civil or military roles:

Military operators edit

Afghanistan edit

 
An Afghan Air Force Mi-17

Algeria edit

Angola edit

Argentina edit

Armenia edit

Azerbaijan edit

Bangladesh edit

 
Bangladesh Air Force Mil Mi-171Sh

Belarus edit

Bhutan edit

Bosnia and Herzegovina edit

Bulgaria edit

Burkina Faso edit

Cambodia edit

Cameroon edit

Chad edit

China edit

Colombia edit

Republic of the Congo edit

Democratic Republic of the Congo edit

Croatia edit

 
A Czech Republic Mi-171

On 19 October 2023, Croatia announced that it would send its entire fleet of Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine.[4]

Cuba edit

Czech Republic edit

Djibouti edit

Ecuador edit

Egypt edit

Equatorial Guinea edit

Eritrea edit

Ethiopia edit

Georgia edit

 
Georgian soldiers board Mil Mi-8.

Ghana edit

 
A Ghanaian special forces team board an Mi-17 helicopter

Guinea edit

India edit

Indonesia edit

Iran edit

Iraq edit

Kazakhstan edit

Kenya edit

Kyrgyzstan edit

Laos edit

Libya edit

Lithuania edit

Mali edit

Mexico edit

Moldova edit

Mongolia edit

Mozambique edit

Myanmar edit

Namibia edit

Nepal edit

Nicaragua edit

Niger edit

Nigeria edit

North Korea edit

North Macedonia edit

Pakistan edit

 
A Mi-17 of the Pakistan Army

Peru edit

Poland edit

Russia edit

Rwanda edit

Serbia edit

Senegal edit

Sierra Leone edit

Slovakia edit

South Sudan edit

Sri Lanka edit

Sudan edit

Syria edit

Tajikistan edit

Turkmenistan edit

Thailand edit

Uganda edit

Ukraine edit

United States edit

Uzbekistan edit

 
A Mi-17 of the Serbian Air Force

Venezuela edit

Vietnam edit

Yemen edit

Zambia edit

Zimbabwe edit

Para-military, law enforcement and other government operators edit

Bangladesh edit

Equatorial Guinea edit

Georgia edit

Indonesia edit

North Macedonia edit

Malaysia edit

Pakistan edit

Poland edit

Romania edit

Russia edit

Republic of Korea edit

Turkey edit

Civil operators edit

Cuba edit

India edit

Mongolia edit

Nepal edit

North Korea edit

Russia edit

 
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mil Mi 17 helicopter.

Slovakia edit

Turkmenistan edit

United States edit

Vietnam edit

Former operators edit

Canada edit

Costa Rica edit

Czechoslovakia edit

East Germany edit

 
Finnish Mi-8T inserting special forces during an exercise in 2006.

Finland edit

Germany edit

Guinea-Bissau edit

Japan edit

  • Aum Shinrikyo(Cult)[53]
    • Serial No. 4K-15214. Imported from Azerbaijan in 1994 to spray chemical agents, but not given licenses and flown in Japan. In 2001, exported to Djibouti as J2-MAW.[54]

Laos edit

 
A former Latvian Air Force Mi-8

Latvia edit

Madagascar edit

North Yemen edit

Romania edit

Serbia and Montenegro edit

South Yemen edit

Soviet Union edit

 
An Mi-17 used by the RAF to train Afghan pilots

Republika Srpska edit

Somalia edit

FR Yugoslavia edit

United Kingdom edit

Yemen edit

See also edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mil Mi-8.
 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mil Mi-17.

References edit

Citations edit

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Bibliography edit

  • Cooper, Tom (2017). Hot Skies Over Yemen, Volume 1: Aerial Warfare Over the South Arabian Peninsula, 1962-1994. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-912174-23-2.
  • Mladenov, Alexander (May 2011). "Fighting Terrorism & Enforcing the Law in Russia". Air International. Vol. 80, no. 5. pp. 108–114. ISSN 0306-5634.
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