page_title: List of Chengdu J-7 variants
section_title: Type 1962/62 series
hierarchical_section_title: List of Chengdu J-7 variants / Type 1962/62 series
caption_attribution_description: Română: Spatele unui MiG-21 la Muzeul Aviației din București. English: Back of a MiG-21 at the Aviation Museum in Bucharest.
context_page_description: This is a list of variants and specifications for variants of the Chengdu J-7, which differed considerably between models in its 48 years of production run.
context_section_description: Due to Sino-Soviet split, MiG-21 were not used in China, and referred as Type 1962 instead. Designation Type 62 is subsequently used to refer to those Chinese license assembled MiG-21F-13 from kit provided by former-USSR.
  Type 1962: 12 imported MiG-21F-13 delivered and entered Chinese service by November 1962. These jets are the early production series models of MiG-21F-13.
  Type 62: 15 Chinese assembled MiG-21F-13 from kits supplied by Soviet Union. First batch of 10 delivered in PLAAF in September 1964, followed by the remaining 5 in the 2nd batch delivered in February 1965, and all jets are the later production series models.
caption: MiG-21F-13 rear view
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