Strength and Consist of Fighter Aviation of the Korean Peoples' Army and the Chinese Volunteers Taking Part During the War in Korea ((Fighter Aviation Division - FAD))
Formation
Designator |
As of 1 April 1951 |
As of 1 July 1951 |
As of 1 July 1952 |
As of 1 June 1953 |
|
Type of aircraft |
Number |
Type of aircraft |
NumberType of aircraft
NumberType of aircraft
Number |
| 2 FAD |
La-11 |
30/6* |
MiG-15
La-11 |
30/2
31/5
-
-
-
- |
| 3 FAD |
MiG-15 |
45/11 |
MiG-15 |
45/7 MiG-15
47/4 MiG-15bis
51/2 |
| 4 FAD |
MiG-15 |
45/5 |
MiG-15 |
51/0 MiG-15
45/6 MiG-15bis
36/1 |
| 6 FAD |
- |
- |
- |
-
-
-
MiG-15bis
46/1 |
| 12 FAD |
- |
- |
- |
-
MiG-15
56/6MiG-15bis
45/9 |
| 15 FAD |
- |
- |
- |
-
MiG-9
MiG-1559/0
37/3
MiG-15bis
36/8 |
| 16 FAD |
- |
- |
- |
-
-
-
MiG-15
49/2 |
| 17 FAD |
- |
- |
- |
-
MiG-15 44/6
MiG-1549/0 |
| 18 FAD |
- |
- |
- |
- MiG-1546/3
-
- |
| 20, 50,151 FAD |
- |
60 |
- |
147
-
302
-
405 |
| Total |
|
180/22 |
|
304/14636/28612/23 |
Note - the asterisk (*) indicates that the first number signifies serviceable aircraft, the second number unserviceable aircraft.
((TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: The last numbers - "20, 50, 151 FAD" - are actually Soviet fighter aviation divisions - 28 IAD, 50 IAD and 151 GIAD. These were put into the text by the original authors without such identification. What they do provide is probably the first actual indications of the actual strength of Soviet fighter aviation within the 64th IAK during the Korean air war. Also the numbers for the other units - all Chinese formations, as there is growing evidence that no Korean formations took part in the air war after the fall of 1950 other than the night raider units - differ from published Chinese sources. The Chinese PLAAF rotated its divisions into and out of the Korean theater in order to gain experience for its pilots, and thus this gives a better picture of the operation strength of the MiG formations in Korea than any other source up to this point in time.))