Harbin Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. (HAIG), often shortened to Hafei (), is an aircraft manufacturing company headquartered in

Pingfang District Pingfang District () is one of nine districts of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, forming part of the city's urban core. The least spacious of Harbin's county-level divisions, it borders ...

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

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province,

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. It was previously called Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) in English. The company was founded in 1952 to manufacture planes for domestic sales, but today it supplies various components for foreign aerospace companies. It is a subsidiary of the

Aviation Industry Corporation of China The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is a Chinese state-owned publicly-traded aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Beijing. AVIC is overseen by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the ...

(AVIC). A former subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation —

Hafei Motor Hafei, officially Hafei Motor Co., Ltd. (), is a Chinese automaker currently operating as a subsidiary of Changan Ford, and manufacturing passenger vehicles. It previously independently manufactured sedans, Minivan, MPVs, mini vehicles, small t ...

, was one of the major automobile manufactures in China.

History

The 1st factory opened in 1952 to repair aircraft and situated on the former site of the Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company (Manshū/Mansyuu) factory. In 1958, it began producing licensed copies of

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

aircraft. It produced the Z-5, the

Mil Mi-4 The Mil Mi-4 (USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 36", NATO reporting name "Hound")'' Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1963-1964'', p. 303 is a Soviet transport helicopter that served in both military and civilian roles. Design and development The Mi ...

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which Lift (force), lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning Helicopter rotor, rotors. This allows the helicopter to VTOL, take off and land vertically, to hover (helicopter), hover, and ...

, and the H-5 light bomber — a copy of the

Ilyushin Il-28 The Ilyushin Il-28 (; NATO reporting name: Beagle) is a jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. It was ...

. It then produced the

Harbin Y-11 The Harbin Y-11 (NATO reporting name Chan) is a high wing twin-engine piston utility and geological survey aircraft built by Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC). Development A requirement for a twin-engined light utility transport ...

a light twin-engined utility aircraft — an aircraft of its own design and not a licensed copy. The

Harbin Y-12 The Harbin Y-12 ( zh, c=运-12, p=Yùn-12) is a high wing twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft built by Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG). It is the first Chinese-designed and produced aircraft to receive type certificate from the FAA in M ...

which followed, while similar to the Y-11, was a largely new aircraft. The most recent and important product is the Z-20 utility helicopter designed and built for the Chinese military.

Subsidiaries

Hafei Aviation Hafei Aviation Industry Co Ltd () () is a Chinese manufacturer of light airplanes, helicopters and aerospace parts.

, a manufacturer of light airplanes, helicopters and aerospace parts. *

Hafei Motors Hafei, officially Hafei Motor Co., Ltd. (), is a Chinese automaker currently operating as a subsidiary of Changan Ford, and manufacturing passenger vehicles. It previously independently manufactured sedans, MPVs, mini vehicles, small trucks, a ...

, a producer of automobile engines; sedans; MPVs; and mini vehicles, small trucks and vans that see commercial use. Subsidiaries include the auto-making Hafei Motor Co Ltd and the engine maker Harbin Dongan Auto Engine Co.

Major products

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Helicopters *

Harbin Z-5 The Harbin Z-5 (''Zhishengji'' – helicopter) is a Chinese variant of the Soviet Mil Mi-4 piston powered helicopter. Before its discontinuation from service, it was produced in Harbin, China. History The Soviets provided China with Mi-4 bluep ...

- Chinese variant of the

transport helicopter *

Harbin/CHDRI Z-6 The Harbin/CHDRI Z-6, (Z - ''Zhishengji'' - vertical take-off aircraft), is a Chinese helicopter development based on the Harbin Z-5, itself a licence-built / reverse engineered Mil Mi-4. A limited production run was terminated after performance ...

- turboshaft re-design of the Z-5 *

Harbin Z-9 The Harbin Z-9 (NATO reporting name "Haitun", ) is a People's Republic of China, Chinese military utility helicopter with armed helicopter, armed variants, manufactured by Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. It is a license-built variant ...

- medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter - Chinese variant of the

Eurocopter Dauphin The Eurocopter, later Airbus Helicopters AS365 Dauphin, originally known as the Aérospatiale SA 365 Dauphin 2, is a medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters. It was originally developed and manufactured ...

** Harbin Z-9W/G - attack helicopter *

Harbin Z-19 The Harbin Z-19 is a Chinese light reconnaissance/attack helicopter developed by Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) for the People's Liberation Army Air Force and the Ground Force Army Aviation. It is a specialized combat variant ...

- reconnaissance and attack helicopter *

Harbin Z-20 The Harbin Z-20 ( zh, t=直-20) is a Chinese medium-lift utility helicopter produced by the Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG). It was first flown on 23 December 2013 and has a maximum takeoff weight in the range of . The Z-20 can operate from ...

- a new 10-ton utility helicopter for the

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, army and navy. Similar specifications to

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift military utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted a design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS ...

. * Harbin Z-21 * Harbin Z-15/EC175 - medium utility helicopter, joint-developed with

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* HC-120/EC120 - joint-developed with Eurocopter and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, Ltd. Bombers * Harbin H-5 - Chinese variant of the

bomber *

Harbin SH-5 The Harbin SH-5 (, where "水轰" is short for ) is a Chinese maritime patrol amphibious aircraft intended for a wide range of duties, including aerial firefighting, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and air-sea rescue (ASR). One prototype and six pr ...

- amphibious bomber * HongDian-5 -

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version of Harbin H-5, being replaced Patrol/Utility aircraft *

Harbin PS-5 The Harbin SH-5 (, where "水轰" is short for ) is a Chinese Maritime patrol aircraft, maritime patrol amphibious aircraft intended for a wide range of duties, including aerial firefighting, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and Search and rescue, ai ...

- Patrol Anti-submarine seaplane version of

- high wing twin-engine piston utility aircraft Transports *

- utility STOL transport and variant of the

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) *

Harbin BZK-005 The BZK-005 Medium-altitude, long-range UAV is a reconnaissance aircraft designed by Harbin Aircraft Industry Group. It is used by the PLA Navy and PLA Air Force. Development The BZK-005 was unveiled in Zhuhai International Airshow 2006, where ...

Former production * ERJ 145 - in a joint venture with

Embraer Embraer S.A. () is a Brazilian multinational aerospace corporation. It develops and manufactures aircraft and aviation systems, and provides leasing, equipment, and technical support services. Embraer is the third largest producer of civil air ...

Embraer Legacy 650 The Embraer Legacy 600 is a business jet derivative of the Embraer ERJ family of commercial jet aircraft. Design and development The Legacy 600 (market designation adopted after 2005) is based on the ERJ-135 model. It was launched in 2000 at ...

- in a joint venture with Embraer

References

External links

Official Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation website

哈尔滨飞机工业集团有限责任公司

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