The 2nd Fighter Division of the
People's Liberation Army Air Force
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is an air formation of the
People's Republic of China
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. It was part of the
Guangzhou Military Region
The Guangzhou Military Region was from 1955 to 2016 one of the People's Liberation Army PLA Military Regions, located in the south of the People's Republic of China. In May 1949, the Central China (Hua Zhong) Military Region (MR) was formed. In Mar ...
Air Force.
The plan was to establish the formation at
Shanghai Longhua Airport
Shanghai Longhua Airport (上海龙华机场) , then called Shanghai Lunghwa Airport, was a converted general aviation airport and PLAAF airfield located south of downtown Shanghai, China, on the bank of the Huangpu River. It opened in the earl ...
from personnel of the
East China Military Region
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Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...
and the
208th Division of the
North China Military Region, and the 624th Infantry Regiment Headquarters. It was formed in November 1950 at Shanghai Longhua with the 4th and 6th Regiments. It was initially mostly responsible for air defense duty of Shanghai, and it participated in the
Korean War
, date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...
.
In the early morning of August 23, 1956, Zhang Wenyi, the 6th regiment's commander, shot down a U.S.
P4M-1Q electronic reconnaissance aircraft in the airspace of Zhoushan, Zhejiang.
In 2007,
Ma Zhenjun
Ma Zhenjun (; born 1962) is a lieutenant general ('' zhong jiang'') of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China. He has been Chief of Staff of the PLAAF since August 2013, and previously served as commander of the Beijing Military ...
was promoted from commander of the 2nd Fighter Division to deputy chief of staff of the
Guangzhou Military Region Air Force
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, when he was 43.
In its last years the division operated
Sukhoi Su-27
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"Flanker" fighters and
Chengdu J-7
The Chengdu J-7 (Chinese: 歼-7; third generation export version F-7; NATO reporting name: Fishcan) is a People's Republic of China fighter aircraft. It is a license-built version of the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, and thus shares many si ...
aircraft from
Suixi Airbase and J-7E aircraft at
Liuzhou
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Airbase.
References
External links
* Dutch Aviation Society 'Scramble,
Order of Battle: China: Air Force
Aviation Divisions of the People's Liberation Army
Fighter aircraft units and formations of the People's Republic of China
Military units and formations established in 1950
1950 establishments in China
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