List of aircraft used in China before 1937

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This is a partial list of aircraft acquired by operators in China, prior to the start of the Second Sino-Japanese war on 7 July 1937.

Military Aviation

File:The Rosamonde.jpg, the first indigenously designed aircraft in China shown here with Soong Qingling and Sun Yat-sen; Soong would fly as a passenger in the plane with pilot Huang Guangrui at the controls]]

File:Curtiss Model 68 Hawk III.jpg opposing the Japanese invasion in 1937, until superseded by Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters]]

File:Aichi_AB-3_Single-Seat_Reconnaissance_Seaplane_1932a.jpg being built in Japan for the Chinese navy]]

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=Early Military Aviation=

Revolutionary Faction

Beiyang Government

=Chinese Nationalist Air Force=

=Republic of China Navy=

=Warlord and Provincial Military Aviation Branches=

Kwangtong Aviation Corps:

Kwangtong Naval Aviation:

Kwangsi Clique Aviation Corps:

Fengtian Clique Air Force (Chang Hsueh-liang):

Fengtian Clique - Shantung Aviation Corps (Chang Tsung-chang):

Shansi Clique Aviation Corps (Yen Hsi-shan):

Szechwan Clique Aviation Corps (Liu Hsiang):

West-North Aviation Corps (Feng Yuxiang):

Sinkiang Province Aviation Corps (Sheng Shih-Tsai):

=Foreign Military Aviation Based in China=

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Civilian Aviation

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=China National Aviation Corporation=

=Eurasia Aviation Corporation=

=The Nationalist Government=

=Others=

Chinese Warlords who owns military aviation branches

The aviation branches of the above warlords faction, the aircraft along with the personnel, had been voluntary incorporated into the nominally Chinese Nationalist air force by 1937 in preparations for the impending war against the Empire of Japan.

See also

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