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Hongdu Aviation Industry Group

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Type
  
State-owned

Website
  
www.hongdu.com.cn

Founded
  
1951

Products
  
Military aircraft

Headquarters
  
Nanchang

Number of employees
  
20,000

Hongdu Aviation Industry Group

Key people
  
Song Chengzhi (Chairman)

Parent organization
  
Aviation Industry Corporation of China

Hongdu Aviation Industry (Group) Corporation (Chinese: 洪都航空工业集团) (formerly China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation or CNAMC) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and supplier to the Chinese military. It is based in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province and is part of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

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History

The company was founded in 1951 as the state-run Hongdu Machinery-building Factory and later as the Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. On March 1998 the company's name was changed to Hongdu Aviation Industry (Group) Corporation.

Products

Attackers

  • Q-5 "Fantan"(exported under the designation A-5) - single-seat dual-engined supersonic attack aircraft based on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19.
  • Q-6 - A variable sweep-winged attacker, similar to MiG-23BN, cancelled

    • Cancelled Fighters

  • J-12 - a 1970 Chinese lightweight supersonic fighter, Development abandoned in 1977. Only Prototypes built.

    • Trainers

  • CJ-5 - tandem two-seat military primary trainer aircraft - variant of Yak-18 (1958)
  • CJ-6 - basic and advanced trainer, similar to the Yakovlev Yak-18.
  • CJ-7 - two-seat piston engined trainer jointly developed by Hongdu and the Yak Aircraft Corporation.
  • NAMC/PAC K-8 - two seat basic trainer
  • Hongdu JL-8 - two-seat trainer
  • Hongdu L-15 - supersonic trainer

    • Utility

  • Hongdu N-5 - multi-use agriculture & forest aircraft

    • Helicopters

  • MD500E - light and multi-purpose helicopter
  • MD520N - light and multi-purpose helicopter
  • MD530F - light and multi-purpose helicopter
  • MD600N - single-turbine engine helicopter, stretched version of MD600

    • Transport

  • Yun-5 (Y-5) - light utility/transport biplane

    • Vehicles

  • Chang Jiang 750cc sidecar motorcycles - derived from Soviet copies of the 1938 BMW R71

    • References

    Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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