Aviation Industry Corporation of China

AVIC International ( Aviation Industry Corporation of China ) is a Chinese state-owned defense and aerospace group with headquarters in Beijing. CEO Tan Ruisong.

Reliable data are due to secrecy difficult to obtain, but are the FORTUNE 2011 sales of $ 31 billion and the number of employees with a good 400,000, 2012, $ 40 billion with 480,000 employees, FORBES estimates sales in 2011 to $ 25 billion, the number of employees to 575,000.

The origins of the company date back to the year 1951, ie, the Korean War, back. Since then, the Group has been renamed several times, under its current name it exists since 2008, after an experiment with two separate producers AVIC I and AVIC II was pulped. He is internationally V.A. known as a supplier to aircraft manufacturers, and there are significant joint ventures, for example, an assembly plant for the Airbus 320 in Tianjin.

However, the parent company and subsidiaries as COMAC ( Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China ) and caiga also manufacture our own vehicles, such as the Comac C919, which is the western producers to compete.

2010/2011, the Group purchased the American engine Teledyne Continental Motors and Teledyne Mattituck Services from the mother Teledyne acquired caiga 2011, the Cirrus Aircraft. 2013 was followed by the German aircraft engine manufacturer Thielert.