Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Ltd. (HAIG) (), formerly China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation or CNAMC, is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and supplier to the Chinese military. It is based in

Nanchang Nanchang (, ; ) is the capital of Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east ...

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

and is a subsidiary of the

Aviation Industry Corporation of China Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

(AVIC).

History

Republic of China

Hongdu's predecessor was the Sino-Italian National Aircraft Works (SINAW), established in December 1934 in Nanchang. It was a joint venture between the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

and the

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, after

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

signed an agreement with Italian Prime Minister

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in ...

a year before. In 1935, factories were built at Qingyunpu Airport (then known as Sanjiadian) and Laoyingfang Airport. (T. L. Soong) served as the first chairman, and an Italian served as general manager. After the outbreak of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific T ...

in 1937, SINAW factories were severely damaged by Japanese aerial bombing. When the Chinese government discovered that Italians served as guides for Japanese pilots, it broke off its relationship with Italy, and all Italian employees left the company by the end of the year, with 300 Chinese employees remaining. On 9 December 1937, Chiang Kai-shek confiscated Italian shares and properties and renamed the company Central Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (). To evade Japanese attacks, it was relocated to

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, and was renamed No. 2 Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (). After the end of the war, the company was moved back to Sanjiadian Airport in Nanchang in 1947.

People's Republic of China

After the founding of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

in 1949, the company was re-established in 1951 as the state-run Hongdu Machinery-building Factory and later as Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. In March 1998 the company's name was changed to Hongdu Aviation Industry (Group) Corporation. Since its founding, Hongdu used Qingyunpu Airport for test flights. On 23 December 2009, the Jiangxi provincial government reached an agreement with

to build the new Nanchang Yaohu Airport in the Nanchang Aviation Industrial City to replace Qingyunpu Airport. Construction began in November 2016, and Yaohu Airport was opened on 16 August 2018.

Products

Attack aircraft * 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 * GJ-11, unmanned combat attack aircraft with stealth design. 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. *

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- 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 The Hongdu N-5, (N-5 - ''Nongye-Feiji-5'' - agricultural aircraft-5), originally known as the Nanchang N-5, is a Chinese agricultural aircraft. First flown in 1989, and entering into production in 1992, the N-5 is a single-engined low-wing monopla ...

- 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

External links

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Introduction on the website of Federation of American Scientists
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