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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]
^
Zhang 2004 , p. 193.
^ 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.
^ Trevethan 2018, 19, 22.
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
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