Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19, Czechoslovak users

The Czechoslovak Air Force's combat potential was strongly boosted by the addition of the MiG-19P, MiG-19PM and the MiG-19S which were shown to their top commanders at Kubinka Air Base, in the USSR during late 1956. A deal was signed a year later thanks to which the type was supplied and licensed produced within Czechoslovak borders.
On 11th July 1957 the first group of Czechoslovak pilots and technicians went to the PVO's (Soviet Air Force) main conversion training centre at the time, located at Savasleyka Air Base, in the USSR, close to the city of Gorky (nowadays Nizhny Novgorod) where a manufacturing plant for the MiG-19 was.
In this initial group was Valstimil David, who was Aero's main test pilot, which received the license to locally produce the MiG-19S. Another component of the Czechoslovak group was Maj. Július Zvara who was appointed "customer's inspector" on the Gorky's Aircraft Factory delivery line and test flew every aircraft destined for Czechoslovakia. On 30th August 1957 Maj. Zvara reached the speed of Mach 1.4 (1.728,72 km/h - 1.074,18 mph) while flying a MiG-19P, becoming this way the first Czechoslovak pilot to break the sound barrier.
Later that same year, the first batch of 12 MiG-19S was delivered to Prague Kbely Air Base in crates. After being reassembled and test flown at the Kbely overhaul plant, all of them were delivered to the Czechoslovak Air Force between the 3rd and the 27th January 1958, with a single aircraft more which was delivered later and served as the pattern for the Aero S-105.
At the same time, 26 additional MiG-19Ps arrived at Prague Kbely and entered service between 27th January and 1st April 1958. All aircraft from those two shipments were assigned to the 1. stihaci letecký pluk (SLP - Fighter Aircraft Regiment) 'Zvolenský" which was based at Ceské Budejovice and the 11. SLP based at Zatec Air Base, both regiments being part of the 3. stihaci letecka divizie (SLD - 3rd Fighter Aircraft Division).
The licensed-built Aero S-105 was manufactured at Stredoceske strojírny, in Odolena Voda, from early 1958 (though some sources claim it was during late 1957 - something which we think it's not possible) until November 1961 and, with 104 exemplars manufactured, it equipped the whole 1. SLD which comprised the 4. SLP, based at Pardubice Air Base and began MiG-19 operations on 22nd March 1958, the 5. SLP based at Plzen-Line Air Base and the 9. SLP at Bechyne Air Base. It's thought that some few S-105s were exported to Egypt, albeit it's not confirmed.
The 40 MiG-19PMs ordered by the Czechoslovak Air Force started to arrive in late 1959. They were assembled and flown again between 17th November 1959 and 24th February 1961. These aircraft were also the longest serving MiG-19s with the Czechoslovak Air Force as they were retired on 2nd June 1972. Initially, the MiG-19PMs and their missiles, the RS-2-US air-to-air missiles were so secret and carefully guarded that even regimental commissioned officers could barely gain access to the hangars where missiles were stored.
Every MiG-19PM was assigned to the 5. SLP which became the last operator for the MiG-19 of every type in the Czechoslovak Air Force, collecting MiG-19s of all variants from other units as they were replaced by newer types. The last surviving MiG-19PMs not scrapped on site, were transferred to the Czechoslovak Air Force's reserve and moved to other bases.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-19#Variants

2. Midland Publishing - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. The Soviet Union's First Production Supersonic Fighter

3. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters

4. https://www.valka.cz/Mikojan-Gurevic-MiG-19S-kod-NATO-Farmer-C-t12470

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19, Egyptian users

In 1956 the Egyptian Air Force took a serious blow when Anglo-French forces destroyed the Egyptian Air Force on the ground. That's why when it was being rebuilt, in the summer of 1961 the USSR began delivering 80 MiG-19S. Some other sources, however, claim that deliveries began in 1958 and, by June 1962 there were already 100 MiG-19S serving. However those reports seem erroneous for various reasons.
Egypt was still nominally part of the United Arab Republic, however the united air arm did not manage to take any profit from this and, in September 1961 the United Arab Republic ceased to exist, even if the name was still being officially used by Egypt.
A number of MiG-19S (40 according to some sources, some of them being Czechoslovak made S.105) were sent to the Syrian Air Force before 1967.
The first action in the Middle-East of the MiG-19S took place in 1962 when Egyptian MiGs attacked Yemeni Royalist positions. The first aerial combat in the region took place 4 years later, on 29th November 1966 when an Israeli Dassault Mirage III shot down two Egyptian MiG-19Ss which were trying to intercept an Israeli Piper J-3 Cub reconnaissance airplane in Israeli airspace. The first MiG was destroyed by a R.530 missile fired from less than a mille away, making the first aerial kill for the French made missile, while the second one was shot down with the cannon, in the traditional way.
During the Six-Day War in June 1967 the MiG-19 Egyptian force was decimated as 17 aircraft were destroyed on the ground by Israeli Air Force and another 12 were shot down by Israeli Dassault Mirage IIICJs. Those number include the ones supplied to Syria. During this conflict, the Israeli pilots considered the MiG-19 as a potential dangerous adversary due to its performance, manoeuvrability and heavy armament.
After the war, the surviving MiG-19s were assigned to air defence tasks in Egypt's interior regions and, according to some sources, the Egyptian Air Force received 50 or 60 more MiG-19s from the USSR after the war as attrition replacements, however, according to some other sources, those aircraft were received from Syria and Iraq and by late 1968 there were more than 80 MiG-19s in service with the Egyptian Air Force.
During the period known as War of Attrition (1967-1970), on 19th May 1969, a single Egyptian MiG-19S engaged two Israeli Mirages shooting one down with cannon fire and making the other one flee. By the time the Yom Kippur War was waged in 1973 there were around 60 MiG-19S active with the Egyptian Air Force and they were used in the close air support role.
Some of the original Russian MiGs were used until as late as 1985.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-19#Middle_East
2. Midland Publishing - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. The Soviet Union's First Production Supersonic Fighter