HONGDU not only designs and produces light utility airplanes but also has a general aviation service enterprise-jiangxi Changjiang General Aviation Co. Ltd, which has four N5A airplanes and one Y5B transport aircraft used mainly to serve agricultural-and-forestry operation purpose, including rainmaking, aerial forests protection, forests and agricultural seeding, insect killing, aerial photo-graphing, aerial telemetering, advertisement demonstration, cultural & physical sports activities, etc. The service has spread to the area of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Xinjiang, Liaoning and Heilongjiang. In addition, HONGDU owns a of 2500 meters long runway for the operation of airplanes manufactured by the Group.

Y5B transport airplane in aerial photo-graphing

Agricultural airplane N5 is the first generation of airplane for agricultural and forestry purpose in China developed strictly according to CCAR-23 in the whole process of development, which has been awarded the Type Certificate and Production License issued by CAAC.

N5 airplane is equipped with a spraying system for liquid and solid materials. It can operate at extreme low altitude of 3-5 meters for different operations such as plant diseases prevention, insect killing, seeding, fertilizing, weeding, forestry fireproof and insect pests prevention.

N5 agricultural airplane in operation