Design work for the Nanchang began in the early 1950’s in China and the prototype flew in 1961.

The design became popular and was used by military airforces around the world including Albania, China, North Korea, Sri Lanka, and Zambia.

It is debated that the Nanchang CJ6a is a copy of the Russian Yak however the specification are significantly different.

The Chinese CJ6a has become a favorite warbird for pilots and is considered a great value as it is enjoyable to fly and easy to maintain and replacement parts are obtainable.

Hemmed in by hills, NANCHANG sits on Jiangxi’s major river, the Gan Jiang, some 70km
south of where it flows into Poyang Hu. Built on trade, today Nanchang has its position as a rail hub For central-southern China to thank for its character; unfortunately, this mostly reflects its steel and chelnical industries and an overbearing, incomplete reconstruction since the1950s.
Initially it seems a grey and noisy place afflicted by the usual stifling sunnner temperatures; first impressions are slightly moderated by the haudfnl of resurrected older monmnents, and the sheer enthusiasm with which locals have grasped free-market principles, crowding every alley with stalls.
Nanchang saw little action until the twentieth century, when the city was occupied by the Guomindang army in December 1926. At tine time, the military was still an amalgam of Nationalist and Communist forces, but when Chiang Kaishek broke his marriage of convenience with the Communists the following year, any left-wing elements were expelled firom the Party. On August 1, 1927, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, two Comnmnist GMD officers, mutinied in Nanchang and took control of the city with thirty thousand troops. Though they were soon forced to flee into Jiangxi’s mountainous south the day is celebrated as the foundation of thc People’s Liberation Army, and the red PLA flag still bcars the Chinese characters “8″ and “1″ (bay0 for the month and day.

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