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 |
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.
| 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 | China [Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation|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 [Aviation Industry Group|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. |