Shenyang Aircraft Corporation [SAC]
" Shenyang Aircraft Corporation [SAC], with some 30,000 employees, has emerged as China's largest fighter aircraft enterprise since its establishment in 1953. SAC is divided into four divisions: civilian aircraft and ancillary equipment, military aircraft, and civilian products (non-aviation related, from construction materials to passenger buses).
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The Shenyang Airframe Plant is approximately 2nm north of Shenyang, and immediately west of Shenyang Airfield North. As of early 1963 the Aircraft Assembly Plant had 5 large fabrication and 20 associated buildings, a wind tunnel, and a power plant.
The WS10 is a low bypass, two-shaft engine in the 30klbf class. Its core is modeled after the CFM56 (from the GE F-101), which China could examine in 1986. It took until 2009 for the engine to get a thrust and reliability level that it could replace the AL-31 on the local Flanker variant J-11.
The engine was developed and produced by the Shenyang-Liming Aero Engine Group, a unit of Shenyang Aircraft in the AVIC group. China’s engine companies were structured as units of major aircraft companies in AVIC.
The main companies were:
Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group, doing engines for the Shenyang Aircraft Company;
Xi’an Aero-Engine Group, doing engines for the Xi’an Aircraft company; and
Chengdu Aero-Engine Group/Guizhou Liyang Aero-Engine Group, doing engines for the Chengdu Aircraft Company.
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Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation (
GAIC) or
Guizhou Aviation Aircraft Co Ltd (
GAC) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and military aircraft based in Guiyang, Guizhou China as a subsidiary of AVIC.
The company's core products include trainers, turbojets, UAVs, missiles and launchers.
Within a JV with Subaru, named Yunque (云雀), they've also built Chinese license versions of cars like
Subaru Rex and
Subaru Vivio.
The Shenyang Aircraft Engine Plant is located approximately 2 nm. ESE of the old walled city of Shen-Yang (Mukden), on the NE edge of Mukden airfield, and immediately east of Shen-Yang Arsenal. As of early 1963 the plant contained five large fabrication buildings and approximately twenty smaller associated buildings, as well as a recently constructed power plant, underground POL storage, and six engine test cells. Immediately west of the Shenyang Aircraft Engine Plant is the associated Shenyang Arsenal. As of early 1963 the road-and rail-served arsenal contained 6 large and approximately 30 other fabrication buildings, numerous associated buildings, a heat/power plant, and 14 engine test cells and one possible test cell.
Shenyang Aircraft provided assitance to Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation HAMC and Xian Aircraft Company XAC for production of the H-6 Badger under licensing agreement from the Soviet Union. Shenyang Aircraft provided assitance to Nanchang Aircraft for the production of the Q-5.
A joint venture has been established at SAC to produce the Su-27 aircraft and the associated Lyulka AL-31 turbofan engine.
Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has formed a joint production venture with Boeing for producing whole tail sections and cargo doors. SAC in the past has done work for British Aerospace, Airbus, and Lockheed, and currently has a manufacturing sub-assembly venture with Canadian firm Bombardier Aerospace. Boeing maintains a sizeable expatriate presence in Shenyang to support the project and has built a strong working relationship with the Chinese. Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has been involved in manufacturing parts for Airbus aircraft as well as maintenance tools.
The venture with Boeing, the main components of SAC's civilian aircraft section, has two main projects so far, the tail sections and airplane doors, as well as the constructure of a world-class production facility. SAC has imported all parts and raw materials from American suppliers in order to meet required quality control standards.
The cooperation with Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, along with smaller projects for airplane companies from Isreal, Germany, Canada and the U.K., make up the company's so called "key product line" , and form the foundation for SAC's reforms from failing SOE to a market driven corportation.
It was announced 3 years ago that An aircraft engine and parts production project will soon start construction in the Guiyang National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (Guiyang HIDZ) in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province.
The project is expected to improve the engine industrial chain in the Guiyang HIDZ.
The industrial chain mainly involves the polishing of engine blade parts, engine rotating parts, casing, and heat surface treatment of parts.
Investment in the industrial chain has totaled about 1 billion yuan ($150.04 million), and its annual output value is expected to reach about 2 billion yuan.
The newly-introduced aircraft engine and parts project will be funded by Guizhou Liyang International Manufacturing Co.
Guizhou Liyang International Manufacturing Co focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of aerospace power components.
Its products include core components of civil aviation engines, aircraft nacelle parts, national scientific research model tasks, ground gas turbine parts, oil drilling equipment parts, and Huawei submarine optical cables.
The aero-engine casing produced by Guizhou Aviation Technical Development Co, a company based in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province and engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of annular forgings of aviation difficult-to-deform metal materials, has been selected as a single champion product.
The list of the seventh group of single "champion" enterprises and products in manufacturing was jointly published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Federation of Industrial Economics.
As a national technological innovation demonstration enterprise, Guizhou Aviation Technical Development Co has independently developed 10 core technologies and made a major breakthrough in the precision manufacturing of large aero-engine casings.
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Wu Yong'an, the company's deputy general manager, said that the technology in the precision manufacturing of large aero-engine casings is a core technology in several key fields and has been successfully developed by the company for many years.
The company has developed into a supplier for the world's top six aero-engine manufacturers through continuous efforts in research and development. It has also joined forces with a number of domestic high-end universities and research institutes to make breakthroughs in a number of core technologies in key fields. To date, it has 58 patents.
Zhang Hua, chairman of Guizhou Aviation Technical Development Co, said his company will take advantage of government policies, seize market opportunities, rely on Guizhou's aviation industrial chains, and build itself into a first-class aviation engine ring parts manufacturing center and make contributions to Guizhou's socioeconomic development.
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As for SAC flag ship project of J-35 / J-31 B / J-31AE . It continues to refine the design, the FC-31 will undergo several modifications. The plan is to equip the aircraft with the Guizhou WS-19 turbofan engine, comparable to the J-20's engine."