The Sky Wing Air Demonstration Team is a new aerobatic demonstration
team of the People's Liberation Army Air Force. The team was newly
formed in 2011 using the piston-engined Nanchang CJ-6 trainer. The Sky
Wing (Tianzhiyi) is composed of eight aircraft as only six flying in
demonstration and 16 university instructor pilots from the Chinese Air
Force University at Changchun-Dafangshen in Jilin province. The aircraft
are painted in an overall blue color scheme with red and white accents.
Sky Wing Nanchang CJ-6 planes are also equipped with smoke generators
to produce red, orange, white and violet smoke. The first public
demonstration of the team was on 1st September 2011 at Aviation Open Day
held in Changchun City in Jilin province.
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Nanchang CJ-6
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