The 6th Fighter Division is an air division of the

People's Liberation Army Air Force The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF; ), also known as the Chinese Air Force (中国空军) or the People's Air Force (人民空军), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the Peo ...

. It is part of the air force component of the

Western Theater Command The Western Theater Command ()is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, founded on 1 February 2016. Its jurisdiction includes Sichuan, Tibet, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Chongqing. Guizhou ...

, and formerly part of the Lanzhou Military Region Air Force. It was formed in November 1950 at

Anshan Anshan () is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about south of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning's third most populous city with a population ...

. It originally consisted of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Regiments.Appendix G, "Origins of PLAAF MRAFs, Air Corps, Command Posts, Bases, Air Divisions, and Independent Regiments," Ken Allen
Chapter 9, "PLA Air Force Organization"
, The PLA as Organization, ed. James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002) In Korea it fought under the leadership of commander Bei Sha and Commissar Zhang Zhiyong, deploying the 16th and 18th Regiments flying

MiG-9 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-9, USAF/DoD designation: Type 1, NATO reporting name: Fargo) was the first turbojet fighter developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in the years immediately after World War II. ...

s and MiG-15s It entered combat in November 1951 and returned to China in March 1952.. The division consists of 1 fighter regiment with J-11, and two fighter regiments with

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 s ...

s (inc 1 with E).

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{{People's Liberation Army Divisions Aviation Divisions of the People's Liberation Army Military units and formations established in 1950 1950 establishments in China