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Central Theater Command Air Force

Air Force unit of the CTC in Beijing, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ28417767 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Central Theater Command Air Force is the air force under the Central Theater Command. Its headquarters is in Beijing. The current commander is Han Shengyan and the current political commissar is Shang Yaheng.

History

On 1 February 2016, the founding meeting of the Central Theater Command Air Force was held at the August First Building in Beijing, China.

Functional Departments

General Staff

Political Work Department

Logistics Department

Disciplinary Inspection Committee

Directly Subordinate Units

Central Theater Command Air Force Training Base

PLA Air Force Tianjin Aviation Equipment Training Base

PLA Air Force No.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Central Theater Command Air Force” as air Force unit of the CTC in Beijing, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016. The account is most persuasive where Central, Theater and Command can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as air Force unit of the CTC in Beijing, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28417767. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Central Theater Command Air Force” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.