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Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC), often shortened to Hafei, is an aircraft manufacturing company located in Harbin, the capital of the Heilongjiang Province of the People's Republic of China.

The company was founded in 1952 to manufacturer planes for domestic sales, but today it supplies various components for foreign aerospace companies. It is a subsidiary of AVIC II.

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

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The first 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.

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Helicopters

Harbin Z-5 - Chinese variant of the Mil Mi-4 transport helicopter
Harbin Z-9 medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter - Chinese variant of the Eurocopter Dauphin
Harbin Z-9W/G attack helicopter
Harbin Zhi-15 medium utility helicopter
HC-120 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,under the jointveture of Embraer by Harbin Embraer

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[edit] References

HAMC

[edit] External links

Official Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation webistie (English)
哈尔滨飞机工业集团有限责任公司 (Chinese)

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