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 border ...

, Harbin,

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

province,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. 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 a ...

(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, MPVs, mini vehicles, small trucks, an ...

, 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 compan ...

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

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

aircraft. It produced the Z-5, the

Mil Mi-4 The Mil Mi-4 (USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 36", NATO reporting name "Hound") is a Soviet transport helicopter that served in both military and civilian roles. Design and development The Mi-4 was designed in response to the American H-19 Chick ...

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

, and the H-5 light bomber — a copy of the Ilyushin Il-28. 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 transpor ...

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. 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 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. The USSR provided China with Mi-4 blueprints just a f ...

- 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", for Dolphin) is a Chinese military utility helicopter with civilian variants. It is a licensed variant of the French Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin, and is manufactured by Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing ...

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

Eurocopter Dauphin The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) AS365 Dauphin (''Dolphin''), also formerly known as the Aérospatiale SA 365 Dauphin 2, is a medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters. It was originally developed a ...

** 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 The Harbin Z-20 ( Chinese: 直-20; official codename Chinese: “神雕”, "Divine Eagle") 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 maxim ...

- a new 10-ton utility helicopter for the

PLA Air Force The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF; ), also known as the Chinese Air Force (中国空军) or the People's Air Force (人民空军), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the Peo ...

, 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 utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System ( ...

. * Harbin Z-15/EC175 - medium utility helicopter, joint-developed with Eurocopter * HC-120/EC120 - joint-developed with Eurocopter and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, Ltd. Bombers *

Harbin H-5 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 ...

- Chinese variant of the Ilyushin Il-28 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 - ECM version of

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

- high wing twin-engine piston utility aircraft Transports * Harbin Y-12 - utility STOL transport and variant of the

Unmanned Aerial vehicles * Harbin BZK-005 Former Production * ERJ 145 - in a joint venture with Embraer *

Embraer Legacy 650 The Embraer Legacy 600 is a business jet derivative of the Embraer ERJ 145 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 ...

- 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

{{authority control Helicopter manufacturers of China Aircraft manufacturers of China Companies based in Harbin Manufacturing companies established in 1952 Government-owned companies of China Defence companies of the People's Republic of China Chinese companies established in 1952