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ROK Air Force Organization

The air force is composed of Air Force Headquarters, the Combat Air Command, Air Defense Command, and Air Traffic Control Center. Air Force Headquarters consists of two flight wings and. The air force possesses approximately 63,000 troops and about 740 aircraft including F-16s [up from about 700 aircraft in 1990]. The Combat Air Command controlls the bulk of the roughly 500 jet combat aircraft; the small Air Transportation Command has 37 transport aircraft; and the Air Training Command uses 7 types of trainers.

The Combat Air Command, headquartered at Osan, has nine flight wings and one training wing. It controls aircraft that included twenty-two Sqs of ground attack fighters/interceptors, twenty-three counterinsurgency aircraft in one Sq, twenty reconnaissance aircraft in one Sq, and fifteen search-and-rescue helicopters in one Sq. All of these aircraft were produced in the United States, with the exception of sixty-eight Northrop F-5E/Fs that were coproduced with Korean Air. As of 1990 the 294 Northrop F-5s and 36 General Dynamics F16C /Ds were the primary ground attack aircraft. Approximately 130 McDonnell Douglas F-4s were deployed as of 1990 for air defense but were equally useful in ground attack. All three types of aircraft were capable of being used in either role, depending on their armament.