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Harbin Aircraft Industry Group

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Type
  
State-owned

Website
  
www.hafei.com

Founded
  
1952

Key people
  
Guo Dianman (Chairman)

Headquarters
  
Harbin

Number of employees
  
6,700

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Products
  
Military aircraft, Helicopters, Utility aircraft

Parent organizations
  
Aviation Industry Corporation of China, AVIC Helicopter Co., Ltd.

Harbin Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. (HAIG), often shortened to Hafei (simplified Chinese: 哈飞; traditional Chinese: 哈飛; pinyin: Hāfēi), is an aircraft manufacturing company headquartered in Pingfang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. It was previously called Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) in English.

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The company was founded in 1952 to manufacture planes for domestic sales, but today it supplies various components for foreign aerospace companies. It is a subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

A subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation — Hafei Motor, is one of the major automobile manufactures in China.

History

The 1st factory opened in 1952 to repair aircraft. In 1958, it began producing licensed copies of Soviet aircraft. It produced the Z-5, the Mil Mi-4 helicopter, and the H-5 light bomber — a copy of the Ilyushin Il-28.

It then produced the Harbin Y-11 a light twin-engined utility aircraft — an aircraft of its own design and not a licensed copy. The Harbin Y-12 which followed, while similar to the Y-11, was a largely new aircraft.

Subsidiaries

  • Hafei Aviation, a manufacturer of light airplanes, helicopters and aerospace parts.
  • Hafei Motors, a producer of automobile engines; sedans; MPVs; and mini vehicles, small trucks and vans that see commercial use. Subsidiaries include the auto-making Hafei Motor Co Ltd and the engine maker Harbin Dongan Auto Engine Co.

    • Major products

    Helicopters

  • Harbin Z-5 - Chinese variant of the Mil Mi-4 transport helicopter
  • Harbin/CHDRI Z-6 - turboshaft re-design of the Z-5
  • Harbin Z-9 - medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter - Chinese variant of the Eurocopter Dauphin
  • Harbin Z-9W/G - attack helicopter
  • Harbin Z-19 - reconnaissance and attack helicopter
  • Harbin Z-20 - a new 10-ton utility helicopter for the PLA Air Force
  • Harbin Z-15/EC175 - medium utility helicopter, joint-developed with Eurocopter
  • HC-120/EC120 - joint-developed with Eurocopter and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, Ltd.

    • Bombers

  • Harbin H-5 - Chinese variant of the Ilyushin Il-28 bomber
  • Harbin SH-5 - amphibious bomber
  • HongDian-5 - ECM version of Harbin H-5, being replaced

    • Patrol/Utility Aircraft

  • Harbin PS-5 - Patrol Anti-submarine seaplane version of Harbin SH-5
  • Harbin Y-11 - high wing twin-engine piston utility aircraft

    • Transports

  • Harbin Y-12 - utility STOL transport and variant of the Harbin Y-11

    • Airliners

  • ERJ 145 - in a joint venture with Embraer
  • Embraer Legacy 650

    • Unmanned Aerial vehicles

  • Harbin BZK-005

    • References

    Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Wikipedia
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