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Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation is the long-running Xi'an, Shaanxi aircraft producer associated with China's H-6 bomber line and JH-7 fighter-bomber family. Its corporate lineage now sits inside AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group, the Shenzhen-listed AVIC XAC company that says it integrated Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation and other large and medium aircraft manufacturing assets in a 2020 restructuring.
1 weaponsThe manufacturer is part of China's state aerospace industrial base rather than an independent Western-style prime contractor. AVIC XAC's official company materials describe the group as a producer of large and medium aircraft, aircraft whole-machine manufacturing assets, aviation parts, repair, and service work under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
Open defense references connect Xi'an production to two catalog-relevant aircraft families. GlobalSecurity identifies XAC as the producer of the H-6 Badger line and says the company continued H-6 upgrades while developing the Hong-7/FB-7 fighter-bomber for the PLA Navy. Mitchell Institute and other aircraft references identify Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation as the contractor or manufacturer for the JH-7, known as the Flying Leopard.
Chinese Tu-16-derived bomber family produced by XAC and repeatedly upgraded for bomber, maritime strike, tanker, and standoff-missile roles.
Sources: China - Xian Aircraft Company [XAC], Chinese Aircraft - H-6 -- Tu-16 BADGER
Twin-engine fighter-bomber family attributed to Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation / XAC in open aviation references and cataloged separately as the JH-7 Flying Leopard.
Sources: JH-7 - Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, China - Xian Aircraft Company [XAC]Public corporate references trace the Xi'an aircraft producer's foundation to the late 1950s, the period in which China's large-aircraft industrial base at Xi'an began to take shape.
Sources: AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group - LinkedIn
GlobalSecurity states that China received Soviet Tu-16 bombers in 1959 and began the production line that became the H-6 family.
Sources: Chinese Aircraft - H-6 -- Tu-16 BADGER
Mitchell Institute lists the JH-7 as a Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation contractor aircraft and gives 14 December 1988 as the first-flight date.
Sources: JH-7 - Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
AVIC XAC's official company introduction says the A-share company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on 26 June 1997 and became China's first listed aviation manufacturing company.
Sources: AVIC XAC Company Introduction
AVIC XAC says a December 2020 major asset replacement brought Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, Shaanxi Aircraft Industry, Tianshui Aircraft Industry, and related complete-aircraft manufacturing and repair assets into the listed-group structure.
Sources: AVIC XAC Company Introduction, CASI AVIC Organization and Structure
Public English sources alternate between Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation, Xian Aircraft Company, XAC, AVIC XAC, and AVIC Xi'an. This profile keeps the exact canonical manufacturer label already used by the connected weapon record and treats the current AVIC XAC structure as successor and parent-company context.
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Crewed aircraft, drones, and loitering munitions.