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12th Fighter Aviation Division

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The 12th Fighter Aviation Division (第12歼击机师) was an air division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLA-AF). It was established in 1950, and disestablished by 2016-18.

PLA-AF fighter divisions generally consisted of about 17,000 personnel and 70-120 aircraft. Among its notable members was Lu Min.[1]

It was part of the Jinan PLAAF Base, and joined the Northern Theatre Command, but by 2016-18, it had been broken up into three new brigades:[2]

A typical single-seat air brigade holds 32-34 aircraft, in three battalion leader-grade flight groups (each of 8 aircraft), six spare aircraft, and a company leader-grade flight squadron of 2-4 training aircraft.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Zhang 2004, p. 193.
  2. ^ Trevethan, Lawrence, and China Aerospace Studies Institute (U.S.), “Brigadization” of the PLA Air Force, 2018. https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114827, Table 9, p39. Accessed at https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Articles/Tag/148199/casi/, August 2020.
  3. ^ Trevethan 2018, 19, 22.

References

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  • Trevethan, Lawrence, and China Aerospace Studies Institute (U.S.), “Brigadization” of the PLA Air Force, 2018. https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114827.
  • Zhang, Xiao Ming (2004), Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 978-1-58544-340-6