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Harbin Flight Academy
The Harbin Flight Academy () is an aviation training academy in the China, People's Republic of China reporting directly to the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) headquarters. One of three flight academies in the PLAAF, Harbin Flight Academy is located in Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang Province and is the only institution to train the Chinese air force bomber pilots. The academy operates the Hongdu JL-8, Guizhou JL-9, Chengdu J-10, Chengdu JL-10, and Xian H-6 aircraft. History Established on 1 December 1949, months after establishment of the People's Republic of China, the Harbin Flight Academy began as the Air Force 1st Bomber School () under the Shenyang Military Region Air Force. The school was renamed to the Air Force First Aviation School in 1976 and the Air Force First Aviation School in 1976, again to the Air Force 1st Aviation Academy () in September of 1986, and once more in 1996 to the Air Force 1st Flight College (). The 1st Flight College ...
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PLAAF
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 People's Republic of China. The PLAAF was officially established on 11 November 1949 and it is composed of 5 branches which are aviation, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles (SAM), radar, and Airborne Corps. The PLAAF first faced combat in the Korean War against the United States using primarily the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter aircraft, aircraft provided by the Soviet Union, which also assisted with the expansion of the Chinese aerospace industry. Changes in the organization of the PLAAF followed by modernization programs in the 1990s and increased technology development in the 21st century has created the J-20 stealth multirole fighter, the first of its kind for China. History Korean War to the Sino-Soviet Split ...
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