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

 Afghanistan
An Afghan Air Force Mi-17

 Algeria

 Angola
  • Angolan Air Defence Force[1]

 Argentina

 Armenia

 Azerbaijan
  • Azerbaijan Air Force[1]

 Bangladesh

 Belarus
  • Belarus Air Force[1]

 Bhutan

 Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Bulgaria

 Burkina Faso
  • Burkina Faso Air Force[1]

 Cambodia

 Chad
  • Chad Air Force[1]

 China

 Colombia

 Republic of the Congo
  • Congolese Air Force[1]

 Democratic Republic of the Congo

 Croatia
A Czech Republic Mi-171

 Cuba
  • Cuban Air Force[1]

 Czech Republic

 Djibouti

 Ecuador

 Egypt

 Equatorial Guinea
  • Equatorial Guinea Air Force[2]

 Eritrea

 Ethiopia

 Georgia
Georgian soldiers board Mil Mi-8.

 Ghana

 Guinea
  • Military of Guinea[1]

 Hungary

 India

 Indonesia

 Iran

 Iraq

 Kazakhstan

 Kenya

 Kyrgyzstan
  • Kyrgyzstan Air Force[1]

 Laos
Latvian Air Force Mi-8

 Latvia

 Libya

 Lithuania

 Mexico

 Moldova

 Mongolia
  • Mongolian Air Force[1]

 Mozambique
  • Military of Mozambique[1]

 Myanmar

 Namibia

   Nepal

 Nicaragua

 Niger

 Nigeria

 North Korea
  • North Korean Air Force[1]

 North Macedonia
  • North Macedonia Air Force[1]

 Pakistan

Pakistan used it on War in north Waziristan

 Peru
A Mi-17 of the Pakistan Army

 Poland

 Russia

 Rwanda
  • Rwandan Defence Forces[1]

 Serbia
  • Serbian Air Force[1]

 Senegal

 Sierra Leone

 Slovakia

 South Sudan
  • Sudan People's Liberation Army[1]

 Sri Lanka

 Sudan

 Syria

 Tajikistan
  • Tajikistan Air Force[1]

 Turkmenistan
  • Turkmenistan Air Force[1]

 Thailand

 Uganda
  • Ugandan Air Force[1]

 Ukraine

 United States

 Uzbekistan
  • Uzbekistan Air Force[1]
A Mi-17 of the Serbian Air Force

 Venezuela

 Vietnam

 Yemen

 Zambia
  • Zambia Air Force[1]

 Zimbabwe

Para-military, Law Enforcement and other government operators

 Bangladesh

 Russia

 Equatorial Guinea
  • Government of Equatorial Guinea[5]

 Georgia

 Macedonia
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs[7]

 Malaysia
  • Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department[8]

 Pakistan

 Poland

 Romania

 South Korea

 Turkey
  • Turkish Gendarmerie[14]

Civil operators

 Cuba

 India

 Mongolia

   Nepal

 North Korea

 Russia
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mil Mi 17 helicopter.

 Slovakia
  • Air Transport Europe[25]

 Turkmenistan

 United States
  • Vertol Systems Co[27]

Former operators

 Canada

 Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovakian Air Force[30]

 East Germany

 Finland

 Germany

 Guinea-Bissau

 India

 Japan
  • Aum Shinrikyo(Cult)[39]
    • 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.[40].

 Laos

 Romania

 Serbia and Montenegro

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

 Republika Srpska

 Somalia
  • Somali Air Corps

 FR Yugoslavia

 United Kingdom

 Yemen

See also

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