Chengdu JJ-5

The Chengdu JJ-5 is a two-seat jet trainer built by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation as a variant of the Soviet-derived MiG-17 fighter, whose Chinese version was the J-5. Its designers combined the dual-control cockpit of the MiG-15UTI trainer, the engine of the J-5 and the fuselage of the J-5A, and replaced the internal armament with a single 23 mm autocannon in a ventral pack. It flew for the first time on 8 May 1966, received its certificate from the State Certification Group at the end of that year and entered People's Liberation Army Air Force service in November 1967. A single WP-5D non-afterburning turbojet powers it. Production ended in 1986 after 1,061 aircraft, and the type was exported under the designation FT-5 to a number of countries.