Korean Aerospace Industries
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Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (commonly referred to as KAI, Korean
: 한국항공우주산업, Hanja
: 韓國航空宇宙産業) is a South Korean aerospace company, originally a JV of Samsung
Aerospace, Daewoo
Heavy Industries (aerospace division), and Hyundai
Space and Aircraft Company (HYSA), which in 1999 took over its founding members at the behest of the Korean government following their financial troubles which emerged in the 1997 financial crisis.
Co-development
Current projects
Satellites
Future Projects
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
: 한국항공우주산업, Hanja
Hanja
Hanja is the Korean name for the Chinese characters hanzi. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation...
: 韓國航空宇宙産業) is a South Korean aerospace company, originally a JV of Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
Aerospace, Daewoo
Daewoo
Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...
Heavy Industries (aerospace division), and Hyundai
Hyundai
Hyundai ) is a global conglomerate company, part of the Korean chaebol, that was founded in South Korea by one of the most famous businessmen in Korean history: Chung Ju-yung...
Space and Aircraft Company (HYSA), which in 1999 took over its founding members at the behest of the Korean government following their financial troubles which emerged in the 1997 financial crisis.
Products
Military- KF-16, (1991)
- KT-1 (1998)
- T-50 Golden EagleT-50 Golden EagleThe T-50 Golden Eagle is a family of South Korean supersonic advanced trainers and multirole fighters, developed by Korea Aerospace Industries beginning in the late 1990s. The T-50 is South Korea's first indigenous supersonic aircraft and one of the world's few supersonic trainers...
(2001) - F-15K (2002)
- P-3CK (2005)
- KAI Surion (2006)
- Fokker 60 (1997)
- Antonov An-32Antonov An-32The Antonov An-32 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft.-Design and development:The An-32 is basically a re-engined An-26. The launch customer was the Indian Air Force, which ordered this aircraft partly due to good relations between then USSR leader Leonid Brezhnev and then...
(1983) - EADS CASA C-295EADS CASA C-295The EADS CASA C-295 is a twin-turboprop tactical military transport aircraft manufactured by Airbus Military in Spain.-Design and development:...
(2003) - Aeritalia G.222 (1987)
- Antonov An-70Antonov An-70The Antonov An-70 is a four-engine medium-range transport aircraft, and the first large aircraft to be powered by propfan engines. It is being developed by Ukraine's Antonov design bureau to replace the obsolete An-12 military transport aircraft...
(2004)
Co-development
- Bell 427Bell 427|-See also:-References:* . Bell Helicopter-External links:*...
helicopter with Bell Helicopter - Bell 429Bell 429The Bell 429 is a light, twin-engine helicopter developed by Bell Helicopter and Korea Aerospace Industries, based on the Bell 427. First flight of the Bell 429 prototype took place on February 27, 2007, and received type certification on July 1, 2009. The Bell 429 is capable of single-pilot IFR...
helicopter with Bell Helicopter - Embraer EMB 120 BrasiliaEmbraer EMB 120 Brasilia-Accidents:*Brazilian Air Force on July 8, 1988 an Embraer EMB 120RT Brasília registration FAB-2001 crashed during and engine-out landing at São José dos Campos. Five of the 9 occupants died....
(2005) - Embraer EMB 121 XinguEmbraer EMB 121 Xingú|-See also:-References:* * Endres, Gunter and Gething, Mike. . Aircraft Recognition Guide, . New York: Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-713721-4....
(2000) - Cessna 340Cessna 340|-See also:-References:* Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982–83. London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1982. ISBN 0 7106-0748-2.* Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1988–89. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Defence Data, 1988. ISBN 0 7106-0867-5....
(1983) - British Aerospace Jetstream 41 (1991)
Current projects
- KAI KC-100 – four-seat, single piston engine general aviation aircraft
Satellites
- Korean Multipurpose Satellites No. 1, 2, 3 and 5
Future Projects
- KAI KF-X