The 7th Fighter Aviation Division is a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. It is headquartered at Zhangjiakou Air Base in the Beijing Military Region. The unit is equipped with the Chengdu J-7 and Shenyang J-11 fighters. PLA-AF fighter divisions generally consist of about 17,000 personnel and 70-120 aircraft.
| 7th Fighter Aviation Division | |
|---|---|
| 中国人民解放军空军航空兵第七师 | |
| Founded | September 1950 |
| Country |  People's Republic of China |
| Allegiance |  Chinese Communist Party |
| Branch | People's Liberation Army Air Force |
| Type | Fighter Wing |
| Part of | Central Theater Command |
| Air Base | Zhangjiakou Air Base |
| Aircraft flown | |
| Fighter | Chengdu J-7 Shenyang J-11 |
It was originally formed in September 1950 at Dongfeng, Jilin Province, as a fighter unit with the 19th and 21st Regiments.[1]
It was assigned soon after formation to the air force component of the Chinese People's Volunteers as a mixed MiG-9/MiG-15 fighter unit.[2] It did not enter combat in Korea and returned to Northern China in November 1951.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ Appendix G, "Origins of PLAAF MRAFs, Air Corps, Command Posts, Bases, Air Divisions, and Independent Regiments," Ken Allen, Chapter 9, "PLA Air Force Organization" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, The PLA as Organization, ed. James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002), 449.
- ^ Zhang 2004.
- ^ Zhang 2004, p. 225.
- ^ Hu & Ma 1987, p. 68.
Bibliography
edit- Hu, Guang Zheng (胡光正); Ma, Shan Ying (马善营) (1987), Chinese People's Volunteer Army Order of Battle (中国人民志愿军序列) (in Chinese), Beijing: Chinese People's Liberation Army Publishing House, OCLC 298945765
- Zhang, Xiao Ming (2004), Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 1-58544-201-1
External links
edit- PLAAF Order of Battle at Scramble Magazine - Dutch Aviation Society
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