Chinese Trainer Aircraft (JL-8, JL-9, JL-10 (L-15), etc.)

Who would be paying for this? Ukraine is broke.

There is more to the Ukrainian L-15 story. AVIC appears to be interested in a joint production of AI-322 and AI-322f aircraft engines in exchange for the L-15. Very creative WIN-WIN transaction if successful.


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Ukraine and China to jointly produce aircraft engines
18.11.2014 / 15:17


Ukraine and China plan to launch joint production of AI-322 and AI-322f aircraft engines, reported the press service of UkrOboronProm referring to the statement of President of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China AVIC Lin Zuoming at the Air Show China-2014 exhibition where the Ukrainian concern presented its products.

The production will be carried out on the territory of China, he said.

Zuoming noted that the Chinese side is interested in quick completion of the negotiations on the organization of production of aircraft engines and expects a close cooperation.
Source: RBC-Ukraine

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There is more to the Ukrainian L-15 story. AVIC appears to be interested in a joint production of AI-322 and AI-322f aircraft engines in exchange for the L-15. Very creative WIN-WIN transaction if successful.
So this is not about L-15's for Kiev.
 

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Does anyone know what's the current status of the JL-10 program is ?? ... the first aircraft had its maiden flight already in July 2013.

Is it delayed due to the Ukrainian-crisis (due to an Ukrainian engine) ???


Also I'm a bit surprised by this update:

The latest news (January 2015) indicated the first JL-10 built for PLAAF is ready for flight.

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I thought that the first JL-10 was the one that flew in July 2013 !??

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Does anyone know what's the current status of the JL-10 program is ?? ... the first aircraft had its maiden flight already in July 2013.

Is it delayed due to the Ukrainian-crisis (due to an Ukrainian engine) ???


Also I'm a bit surprised by this update:



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I thought that the first JL-10 was the one that flew in July 2013 !??

Deino

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I believe this one is for trial and evaluation. Not sure what happened to earlier ones.
 

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I believe this one is for trial and evaluation. Not sure what happened to earlier ones.

That's the question. So far we have the AJT-prototypes 01 (most likely still the HAIG-bird), 03 (CFTE 432) and 05 (CFTE 433). No. 06 is the sole LIFT-prototype (most likely again at HAIG).

After that we've seem aircraft "10001" flown on 29. June 2013. This one became IMO (?) most likely the first PLAAF-bird (CFTE 434 - but unconfirmed) and there is PLAAF-002 (CFTE 435). Additionally we saw a few more in October 2013 with serial or c/n "L15-11" seen in TV.

So the question is: is this reportedly "first JL-10 built for PLAAF is ready for flight" in fact the first serial JL-10 to be delivered to an operational unit and all others were something like pre-serials and even more where are L15-001 to L15-010 ??? Are these already the ones von Zambia ???

Indeed a mystery little bird.

Deino
 
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