Chinese Air Force Curtiss Hawk II fighter (opening-stock lower bound)

A conservative one-fighter lower bound from a continuous service interval. Air Force Magazine records that by the mid-1930s Curtiss Hawks were the Chinese Air Force's primary fighters and that Chinese pilots took Hawk IIs into combat; the same account documents Hawks as the CAF's primary fighter series from the 1933 selection and Chinese combat use in 1937. This records neither a production total nor an exact aircraft-ready count. The reviewed mapping is fighter.