was fitted with two auxiliary RD-13 pulsejet engines underwing. La-138 – one La-9 was fitted with two underwing PVRD-450 auxiliary ramjet engines. Operators People's Republic of China People's Liberation Army Air Force Imported 129 La-9 airplanes in 1950. The last 5 La-9 fighters retired in 1959. East Germany Volkspolizei (5 operated from 1952 to 1956 prior to the formation of the Air Forces of the National People's Army) North Korea North Korea Air Force Romania Romanian Air Force (10 delivered in 1950: 5 La-9 and 5 La-9 UTI) Soviet Union Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Defence Forces Surviving aircraft China La-9 6201 is on display at Beijing Aeronautical Institute, Beijing, China as 7504 La-9 (unidentified S/N) on display at People's Liberation Army Air Force Museum, Datangshan, Chiangping, China as 06 La-9UTI (unidentified S/N) on display at People's Liberation Army Air Force Museum, Datangshan, Chiangping, China North Korea La-9 102 is on display at Glorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, Pyongyang, North Korea Romania La-9 66 on display at Central Military Museum, Bucharest, Romania United States La-9 28 owned by Jerry Yagen's Military Aviation Museum and restored by Pioneer Aero Restorations in New Zealand between 2001 and 2003, airworthy as N415ML Specifications (La-9) See also References Further reading Gordon, Yefim. Lavochkin's Piston-Engined Fighters (Red Star Volume 10). Earl Shilton, Leicester, UK: Midland Publishing Ltd., 2003. . Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Volume Three: Fighters. London: Macdonald & Co.(Publishers) Ltd., 1961. . Kopenhagen, W (ed.), Das große Flugzeug-Typenbuch (in German). Transpress, 1987, . La-009 Low-wing aircraft 1940s Soviet fighter aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1946 Retractable conventional landing gear