List of aircraft manufactured by China


This is a list of aircraft manufactured by the People's Republic of China, including military and civilian fixed-wing, rotary-wing and unmanned aircraft.

Military aircraft designation system

As a convention, the designations of Chinese military aircraft usually start from 5 instead of 1.
AbbreviationsAircraft TypeSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral translation
HBomber轰炸机轟炸機Bomber
JFighter aircraft歼击机殲擊機Fighter
JHFighter-bomber歼击轰炸机殲擊轟炸機Fighter-bomber
JJOperational conversion trainer歼击教练机殲擊教練機Fighter-trainer
JLTrainer教练机教練機Trainer
JZReconnaissance fighter歼击侦察机殲擊偵察機Fighter reconnaissance aircraft
QGround attack aircraft强击机强擊機Attack plane
KJAirborne early warning and control空中预警机空中預警機AWACS
KQAnti-submarine and maritime patrol空中反潜机空中反潛機Airborne anti-submarine plane
YTransport aircraft运输机運輸機Transport plane
ZHelicopter直升机直升機Helicopter
WZUnmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle无人侦察机無人偵察機Unmanned reconnaissance
GJUnmanned combat aerial vehicle攻击无人机攻擊無人機Unmanned attack

Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C)

Military UAV

For the reason that Chinese UAV developers/manufacturers have officially released a considerable number of military UAVs, and also due to Chinese government's transparency policy for military UAV, this sub-list will only focus on models that are already identified and introduced into the PLA.
Presumably, the military designation with WZ and GJ are designations for People's [Liberation Army Air Force|Chinese air force], the BZK, DCK, KVD, JWP are for the Ground force and Navy.
DesignationManufacturerRemarksMain Variant
BZK-005Harbin [Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation|Harbin]MALE UCAVBZK-005: Unarmed reconnaissance version.
BZK-005C: Developed from original BZK-005 and optimized aerodynamic structure and electronic system with attack and reconnaissance capability. It can equipped with booms or missiles with more than 300 kg payload.

BZK-007
Guizhou&BUAAMALE UAV
BZK-008China Aerospace [Science and Technology Corporation|CASC]Artillery directing UAVBZK-008: small artillery directing UAV carries a retractable electro-optical/infrared turret containing FLIR and CCD camera for both day and night missions.
CH-91: variant for export features redesigned winglets
WZ-5BUAATarget/reconnaissance UAV

WZ-6
BZK-006
KVD001
NWPUTactical reconnaissance /combat UAVWZ-6: PLAAF variant, featured with mushroom shaped communication antenna radome.
BZK-006: PLAN variant, combat capable, developed from WZ-6 with enlarge the airframe and four underwing hardpoints added
BZK-006A: Upgrade version of BZK-006
DCK-006: PLAN variant, unarmed reconnaissance version of BZK-006
KVD001: PLAGF variant, tactical reconnaissance
JWP01: PLAGF variant, tactical reconnaissance for artillery observation
JWP02: PLAGF variant, developed from WZ-6 with electro-optical turret mounted below the fuselage removed
WZ-7GuizhouHALE reconnaissance UAV
WZ-8ChengduHypersonic high-altitude reconnaissance UAV
WZ-10ChengduHALE reconnaissance UAV/UCAVWZ-10: Reconnaissance UAV variant with Chinese military designation.
Wing Loong-10: Mass-produced version for export.
Wind Shadow: UCAV prototype for Chinese domestic version. Featured stealth design, twin-engine, turbofan powered.
Cloud Shadow: An export version prototype. Stealth featured, single-engine, turbojet powered.
KVD002China [Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation|CASC]&CAAAMALE UCAVKDV002: Upgrade version of CASC CH-4. Equipped with diesel piston engine compared with CH-4's petrol piston engine. First MALE UCAV of PLA Army.
CH-4: base variant for export.
GJ-1ChengduMALE UCAVGJ-1: Chinese domestic military version.
Wing Loong 1: Basic variant for export.
Wing Loong 1E: Upgrade version with composite materials and newer electronics.
GJ-2ChengduMALE UCAVGJ-2: Chinese domestic military designation.
Wing Loong 2: Developed from Wing Loong-1, with provisions for up to twelve air-to-surface missiles
Wing Loong 2H: Civilian, communication, emergency response variant, equipped with synthetic aperture radar and optoelectronic pod which is able to relay and amplify telecommunication signals.
Wing Loong 3ChengduMALE UCAV
Military designation is unknown
GJ-11Hongdu [Aviation Industry Group|Hongdu]Stealth UCAV
TB-001TengdenMALE UCAV
Military designation is unknown
TB-001: 2-engine original model
TB-001A: 3-engine variant with payload increased to 1500 kg and max flight ceiling increase to 9500 meters.