Mig-19 FarmerMig 19 farmer airplane model. The MiG 19 Farmer was the first supersonic fighter built in the former USSR. The MiG 19 prototype made its first flight in September 1953 and was placed into production in 1955. It was the Soviet Union's primary fighter during the last half of the 1950's. Possibly as many as 10,000 MiG 19's, in various versions, were built by the Soviet Union, China, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. About 2,000 have been built in the Peoples