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Coordinates: 28°38′05″N 115°55′50″E / 28.634818°N 115.93061°E / 28.634818; 115.93061

Hongdu Aviation Industry Group
Type State-owned
Industry Defence
Founded 1951; 74 years ago (1951)
Headquarters Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
Key people Song Chengzhi (Chairman)[1]
Products Military aircraft
Employees 20000
Parent Aviation Industry Corporation of China
Website www.hongdu.com.cn

Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Ltd. (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).

History[]

The company was founded in 1951 as the state-run Hongdu Machinery-building Factory and later as the Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation.[2] On March 1998 the company's name was changed to Hongdu Aviation Industry (Group) Corporation.[3]

Products[]

Nanchang Q-5 Fantan

Nanchang CJ-6

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Hongdu L-15 supersonic trainer

Attackers

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

Vehicles

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

See also[]

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

References[]

  1. "吴晓军主任会见洪都航空工业集团公司董事长宋承志一行". http://www.gytz.jxciit.gov.cn/(S(20a10o45oinzxavvrgehx455))/Item.aspx?id=30156. Retrieved January 1, 2015. 
  2. "Enterprise Brief Introduction". http://www.hongdu.com.cn/yw/gsjs/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-09. 
  3. Mondey, David (2000). The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft. London: Quantum. pp. 296. 

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