The Harbin H-5 is a Chinese-built derivative of the Soviet Ilyushin Il-28, produced by Harbin Aircraft Factory as a twin-jet light bomber with a three-person crew, internal bomb bay, and local redesign work that moved the type beyond pure licensed production. Open references describe it as a long-lived tactical bomber that remained in Chinese and North Korean inventories after the Cold War.
Various Conflicts: used as a light bomber in older combat and operator histories, including the First Taiwan Strait Crisis and the 1959 Tibetan uprising.
Timeline
Harbin Aircraft Factory began preparing drawings, tooling, and production documents for the H-5 program.
Sources: GlobalSecurity H-5 page
The H-5 entered formal production in April 1967 after prototype work and factory preparation.
Sources: GlobalSecurity H-5 page
Open references still described H-5 aircraft flying in China and a smaller number in North Korea and Romania during the 1990s.
Sources: Harbin H-5 Hongzhaji (Skytamer)
