List of Mil Mi-8/17 operators

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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]

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