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

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Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest c ...

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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 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). A former subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation — Hafei Motor, is 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 The Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company (traditional:滿洲國飛行機製造株式會社; shinjitai: 満州国飛行機製造株式会社 Japanese Hepburn: ''Manshū Koku Hikōki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha''; Chinese ) was an aircraft compa ...

(Manshū/Mansyuu) factory. In 1958, it began producing licensed copies of

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aircraft. It produced the Z-5, the Mil Mi-4

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

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. 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 () is a high wing twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft built by Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG). Design and development The Y-12 started as a development of the Harbin Y-11 airframe called Y-11T in 1980. The design fe ...

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, a manufacturer of light airplanes, helicopters and aerospace parts. * Hafei Motors, 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 - Chinese variant of the Mil Mi-4 transport helicopter * Harbin/CHDRI Z-6 - turboshaft re-design of the Z-5 * Harbin Z-9 - medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter - Chinese variant of the Eurocopter Dauphin ** Harbin Z-9W/G - attack helicopter *

Harbin Z-19 The Harbin Z-19, also called WZ-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 spec ...

- reconnaissance and attack helicopter * Harbin Z-20 - a new 10-ton utility helicopter for the PLA Air Force, army and navy. Similar specifications to Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. * 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 *

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- Chinese variant of the

bomber * Harbin SH-5 - amphibious bomber * HongDian-5 -

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version of

, being replaced Patrol/Utility Aircraft * Harbin PS-5 - Patrol Anti-submarine seaplane version of Harbin SH-5 *

- high wing twin-engine piston utility aircraft Transports *

- utility STOL transport and variant of the

Unmanned Aerial vehicles * Harbin BZK-005 Former Production *

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- in a joint venture with

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* Embraer Legacy 650 - 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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