Operation Moolah was a United States Air Force effort to obtain a fully capable Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter for analysis by encouraging a Communist pilot from the Soviet Union, China, or North Korea to defect with a MiG aircraft. The plan offered $100,000 for delivery of the aircraft and political asylum for the pilot. On September 21, 1953, two months after the Armistice was signed, North Korean pilot Lieutenant No Kum-sok took off from his base in Pyongyang, North Korea, and flew his MiG-15 to Kimpo Air Base, South Korea. He received the $100,000, was allowed to emigrate to the United States, changed his name to Kenneth H. Rowe, earned two degrees from the University of Delaware, became a citizen, married, raised children, and worked for several U.S. aerospace companies before retiring to Daytona Beach, Florida. His MiG-15 was analyzed by the Air Force and flown by test pilots, and it is now displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The MiG-15, developed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in Moscow, was the first swept-wing jet fighter to see combat, first flew in 1949, proved successful in the Korean War against slower piston-engined and straight-wing jet aircraft flown by the United Nations, met its match with the swept-wing North American F-86, and was built in nearly 18,000 examples until 1952.