Hongdu Aviation Industry (Group) Corporation Chinese: 洪都航空 (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 China Aviation Industry Corporation II consortium.

[edit] History

The company was founded in 1951 as the state-run Hongdu Machinery-building Factory and later as the Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. ^[1] On March 1998 the company's name was changed to Hongdu Aviation Industry (Group) Corporation.^[2]

[edit] 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 Su-24, 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.
• NAMC/PAC K-8 - two seat basic trainer
• Hongdu JL-8 2 seat trainer
• L-15 supersonic trainer
• K8 Jet trainer
• K8E trainers

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 and single-turbine engine helicopter

Confirmation is needed that these helicopters are actually built by this corporation. Note: They definitely are not.

Transport

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

Vehicles

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

[edit] See also

• Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation
• Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group
• China Aviation Industry Corporation
• ACAC consortium
• Guizhou Aircraft Industry Co.
• Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
• Shanghai Aviation Industrial Company
• Shanxi Aircraft Company
• Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
• Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation
• People's Liberation Army Air Force

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Website (English)
• 洪都航空工业集团 (Chinese)
• Introduction on the website of Federation of American Scientists

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