Back in the early 1950s an agreement was reached between the USSR and Czechoslovakia to manufacture the plane locally.
Production was undertaken by Aero Vodochody n.p. located in the town of Odolena Voda, close to Prague. Production started in July 1954 and lasted until January 1961 with 2013 exemplars having been manufactured.
It was an identical copy of the regular MiG-15UTI and therefore, it was powered by the Klimov RD-45F engine which gave 5005lb of thrust (22,26kN) and was armed with one 12.7mm (0.5in) UBK-E machine gun and could carry an additional 23mm (0.9in) NR-23 cannon placed under the nose. Additionally, it could carry up to 100 Kg (221lb) of bombs.
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI-P was a single MiG-15UTI modified by the 1.Letecká Divizní Opravna (1st Aircraft Repair Division - if google translator can be trusted) located at the town of Ceské Budejovice, in the southern Bohemian region. It was unarmed and powered by the same Klimov RD-45F engine but it was equipped with the Izumrud RP-1 radar (which also equipped the MiG-17PF). The goal was to create an trainer aircraft with radar training capabilities. However, as the Aero L-29 was already rolling out of the factory, the project was deemed as unnecesary and redundant and was, therefore, discarded.
Sources:
1. https://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/22676
2. https://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/12489
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15
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