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.| Abbreviations | Aircraft Type | Simplified Chinese | Traditional Chinese | Literal translation |
| H | Bomber | 轰炸机 | 轟炸機 | Bomber |
| J | Fighter aircraft | 歼击机 | 殲擊機 | Fighter |
| JH | Fighter-bomber | 歼击轰炸机 | 殲擊轟炸機 | Fighter-bomber |
| JJ | Operational conversion trainer | 歼击教练机 | 殲擊教練機 | Fighter-trainer |
| JL | Trainer | 教练机 | 教練機 | Trainer |
| JZ | Reconnaissance fighter | 歼击侦察机 | 殲擊偵察機 | Fighter reconnaissance aircraft |
| Q | Ground attack aircraft | 强击机 | 强擊機 | Attack plane |
| KJ | Airborne [early warning and control] | 空中预警机 | 空中預警機 | AWACS |
| KQ | Anti-submarine and maritime patrol | 空中反潜机 | 空中反潛機 | Airborne anti-submarine plane |
| Y | Transport aircraft | 运输机 | 運輸機 | Transport plane |
| Z | Helicopter | 直升机 | 直升機 | Helicopter |
| WZ | Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle | 无人侦察机 | 無人偵察機 | Unmanned reconnaissance |
| GJ | Unmanned combat aerial vehicle | 攻击无人机 | 攻擊無人機 | Unmanned attack |
Bombers
Fighter aircraft
Attacker/ Fighter-bomber
Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C)
Maritime patrol/anti-submarine aircraft
Trainers
Military utility aircraft (transport/tanker/passenger)
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 Chinese air force, the BZK, DCK, KVD, JWP are for the Ground force and Navy.
| Designation | Manufacturer | Remarks | Main Variant |
| BZK-005 | Harbin [Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation|Harbin] | MALE UCAV | BZK-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&BUAA | MALE UAV | |
| BZK-008 | China Aerospace [Science and Technology Corporation|CASC] | Artillery directing UAV | BZK-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-5 | BUAA | Target/reconnaissance UAV | |
WZ-6 BZK-006 KVD001 | NWPU | Tactical reconnaissance /combat UAV | WZ-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-7 | Guizhou | HALE reconnaissance UAV | |
| WZ-8 | Chengdu | Hypersonic high-altitude reconnaissance UAV | |
| WZ-10 | Chengdu | HALE reconnaissance UAV/UCAV | WZ-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. |
| KVD002 | CASC&CAAA | MALE UCAV | KDV002: 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-1 | Chengdu | MALE UCAV | GJ-1: Chinese domestic military version. Wing Loong 1: Basic variant for export. Wing Loong 1E: Upgrade version with composite materials and newer electronics. |
| GJ-2 | Chengdu | MALE UCAV | GJ-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 3 | Chengdu | MALE UCAV Military designation is unknown | |
| GJ-11 | Hongdu | Stealth UCAV | |
| TB-001 | Tengden | MALE 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. |