Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation

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Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) is an aircraft manufacturing company located in the Heilongjiang Province of the People's Republic of China.

The company was founded in 1952 to manufacturer planes for domestic sales, but today it supplies various components for foreign aerospace companies. It is a subsidiary of AVIC II.

A subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation -- Hafei Motor, is one of the major automobile manufactures in China.

Contents 1 History 2 Major products 3 See also 4 Reference 5 External links

[edit] History

The first factory opened in 1952 to repair aircraft. In 1958, it began producing licensed(and later, pirated) copies of Soviet aircraft. It produced the Z-5, the Mil Mi-4 helicopter, and the H-5 light bomber -a copy oif the Ilyushin Il-28.

It then produced the Harbin Y-11 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.

[edit] Major products

Helicopters

• Harbin Z-5 - Chinese variant of the Mil Mi-4 transport helicopter
• Harbin Z-9 medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter - Chinese variant of the Eurocopter Dauphin
• Z-9W/G attack helicopter
• Harbin Zhi-15 medium utility helicopter
• EC 120 internation cooperation with Eurocopter

Bombers

• Harbin H-5 - Chinese variant of the Ilyushin Il-28 bomber
• Harbin H-6 - version of the Tupolev Tu-16 twin engine jet bomber
• Shui Hong-5 amphibious bomber
• HongDian-5 martine patrol

Patrol/Utility Aircraft

• Harbin PS-5 Patrol Anti-submarine seaplane
• Harbin Y-11 high wing twin-engine piston utility aircraft

Transports

• Harbin Y-12 utility STOL transport and variant of the Harbin Y-11

[edit] See also

• Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation
• Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group
• China Aviation Industry Corporation
• ACAC consortium
• China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
• Guizhou Aircraft Industry Co.
• Hongdu Aviation Industry Corporation
• Shanghai Aviation Industrial Company
• Shanxi Aircraft Company
• Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
• Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation
• People's Liberation Army Air Force
• Aviation Industries of China I
• Aviation Industries of China II

[edit] Reference

• HAMC

[edit] External links

• Hahang Group - Harbin Aviation Industry (Group) Ltd.'s parent company