Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and developer of large and medium-sized airplanes. It is based in Yanliang,

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Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

. In 2020, under a reform, the company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the publicly listed company, AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group (), for stock exchange purposes. The company's key clients include the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force and

People's Liberation Army Air Force The People's Liberation Army Air Force, also referred to as the Chinese Air Force () or the People's Air Force (), is the primary aerial warfare service of the People's Liberation Army. The PLAAF controls most of the PLA's air assets, includi ...

. It is responsible for the production of China's biggest internally manufactured military aircraft, the Xi'an Y-20.

Products

Turboprops

* Xi'an MA60 turbo-prop airliner * Xi'an MA600 turbo-prop airliner * Xi'an MA700 turbo-prop airliner (in development)

Bombers and fighter-bombers

Xi'an H-6 The Xi'an H-6 ( zh, c=轰-6, p=Hōng-6) is a twin-engine jet bomber of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The H-6 is a license-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 and remains the primary bomber aircraft of the People ...

twin engine bomber - Chinese-upgraded variant of the Tupolev Tu-16 Badger * Xi'an H-8 heavy strategic bomber (cancelled) * Xi'an JH-7 Flying Leopard twin engine fighter-bomber. * Xi'an H-20 heavy strategic stealth bomber; under development

Trainers

* Y-7H trainer based on Y-7-100

Parts

* ACAC ARJ21 Xiangfeng -wings and fuselage *

Boeing 737 The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Boeing Renton Factory, Renton factory in Washington (state), Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the t ...

- vertical fins, horizontal stabilizers, forward access doors *

Boeing 737NG The Boeing 737 Next Generation, commonly abbreviated as 737NG, or 737 Next Gen, is a twin-engine narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Launched in 1993 as the third-generation derivative of the Boeing 737, it has been ...

- vertical fins (30+ year partnership) *

Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body aircraft, wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the Boeing 707, 707 in October 1958, Pan Am ...

- trailing edge ribs, aluminum and titanium forgings *

Boeing 747-8 The Boeing 747-8 is the final series of the large, long-range wide-body airliners in the Boeing 747 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the largest model variant of the 747 and Boeing's largest aircraft overall. Following the intro ...

- 747-8 inboard flaps, the single largest piece of aircraft structure that Boeing purchases from China. *

Boeing 787 The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After dropping its unconventional Sonic Cruiser project, Boeing announced the conventional 7E7 on January 29, 2003, wh ...

Transport

* Yun-7 (Y-7) twin-engine turboprop transport * Yun-14 (Y-14) twin-engine turboprop transport * Xi'an Y-20 four-engine turbofan transport * Xi'an KJ-600 AE&C - using Y-7 based Xi'an JZY-01 as testbed

Partnerships

Safran Safran S.A. () is a French Multinational corporation, multinational aerospace, defence industry, defence and computer security, security corporation headquartered in Paris. It designs, develops and manufactures both commercial and military airc ...

Landing Systems

References

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