14th Fighter Division

14th Fighter Division
第14歼击机师
ActiveFebruary 1951-c.2017
Country People's Republic of China
Allegiance Chinese Communist Party
Garrison/HQNanchang, Jiangxi,
People's Republic of China

The 14 Fighter Division (Chinese: 第14歼击机师; pinyin: Dì 14 jiānjíjī shī) is a fighter aircraft unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).

It was formed in February 1951 at Beijing Nanyuan Airport[1] from elements of the disbanding 95th Division. Stationed at Nanchang, Jiangxi.[2] The division fought in Korea, as a mixed MiG-9/MiG-15 fighter unit.[2] Started its second combat tour in April 1953 and ceased combat in July 1953.[3] It appears that in September 1992 the 146th Regiment of the disbanding 49th Air Division may have become the 42nd Regiment.[citation needed]

The 14th Fighter Division is composed of:[4]

  • 40th Regiment Nanchang/Xiangtang (J11; Su-27UBK)
  • 41st Regiment Wuyishan
  • 42nd Regiment Zhangshu (J7E)

References

  1. ^ Appendix G, "Origins of PLAAF MRAFs, Air Corps, Command Posts, Bases, Air Divisions, and Independent Regiments," Ken Allen, Chapter 9, "PLA Air Force Organization" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, The PLA as Organization, ed. James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002); 450.
  2. ^ a b Zhang, Xiao Ming (2004), Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 1-58544-201-1
  3. ^ Zhang 2004, p. 225.
  4. ^ "Orbats - Scramble". www.scramble.nl. Archived from the original on September 8, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
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