Trumpeter 02887 China Nanchang CJ-6

The Nanchang CJ-6 was and still is a Chinese training and training aircraft from the Cold War and modern times. The machine was built in a low wing configuration with a three-support undercarriage. The prototype flight took place in 1958. Serial production of the machine started in 1960. The drive - in the CJ-6A version - is provided by a single HS-6A engine with a capacity of 285 HP. The plane is 8.46 meters long with a wingspan of 10.22 meters. The deck armament may consist of two 7.62 mm machine guns. The Nanchang CJ-6 was developed as a new basic training machine to replace the CJ-5 aircraft. While the latter was a fairly faithful, license copy of the Soviet Yak-18, the CJ-6 model was quite a clearly technically changed version of the Yak-18A. The machine turned out to be relatively successful and is still used to train pilots of the Chinese Air Force. In the course of production, several development versions of the machine were created, including: CJ-6 (basic version), CJ-6A (version with a new engine) or CJ-6B (armed version, intended for patrol flights over the land borders of the PRC). The Nanchang CJ-6 aircraft was or is still operated in, for example, Albania, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Zambia.