XTND AVIATION
Marketing, trading and operating aircraft
XTND Aviation is the aviation division of XTND International. We market new aircraft for XAC and SAIC, trade any type, place ACMI capacity and develop fleets and networks for operators.
01 — The group
XTND Aviation is where XTND International puts its aviation work. We market new aircraft for two Chinese manufacturers, trade aircraft of any type, place ACMI capacity with operators, and develop fleets and networks for the operators we work with. We are a marketing and commercial house: the campaign, the documentation and the counterparty work that move an aircraft type from a factory to an operator.
02 — Business areas
Each area runs its own counterparties and its own commercial line. Open a card for the full picture.
New build — MA60, MA600, Y-8F400
We market and place new-build aircraft from Xi’an Aircraft Company and Shaanxi Aircraft Company — the MA60 and MA600 regional turboprops and the Y-8F400 freighter.
AVIC · XAC · SAIC
Any type, either side of the trade
We source, inspect and sell aircraft of any type — acting for the buyer or the seller, and standing behind the record we publish.
Aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance
Wet-lease capacity placed with operators who need lift now — the aircraft, the crew, the maintenance and the insurance carried as one contract.
Fleet, network and partners
We build the fleet, route and partner pipeline behind an operator’s growth, and run it as one commercial line rather than three.
03 — Programmes
Four aircraft types, from a nineteen-seat utility turboprop to a sixty-tonne freighter. Figures are the manufacturers’ own.
01 AVIC · Harbin Aircraft Industry Group
Nineteen-seat utility STOL
A clean-sheet replacement for the Y-12E rather than a variant of it. Maximum take-off weight rose by almost half, the strut-braced wing became a cantilever wing, the fixed gear became retractable, and the structure was designed to a damage-tolerance philosophy for the first time in the family.
In certification
© AVIC / Harbin Aircraft Industry Group · photo Wang Duanyang
02 AVIC · Xi’an Aircraft Company
Fifty to sixty-seat regional turboprop
An all-metal pressurised high-wing twin in the class the ATR and Dash 8 own elsewhere. The MA600 is the updated airframe on the same formula. Both are in service and both are available, which is the part that matters to an operator looking for lift this year rather than in four.
In service
03 AVIC · Shaanxi Aircraft Company
Sixty-tonne tactical freighter
A pressurised-hold four-turboprop freighter for the operators these aircraft actually transact with — regional cargo, government utility and humanitarian work across Southeast and Central Asia. The all-Chinese WJ-6 powerplant removes the engine-side supply exposure that has stalled competing programmes outright.
Launch mandate
04 AVIC · Xi’an Civil Aircraft
Unmanned tonne-class freighter
No cockpit. A clean-sheet twin-boom freighter sold as an air vehicle together with its ground control segment and certified as one system, with express-sector customers signed before first flight. The distinctive part is not the airframe — it is that the whole system is on a civil certification track.
In flight test
04 — Capabilities
Six functions run across all four business areas. Open one to see how we apply it.
Finding the airframe and finding the operator — and making sure they are the same mission.
A dossier per type, built to be read by an operator, a financier and a regulator.
The prime contractor function — schedule, budget and accountability across the whole mandate.
The manufacturer, the export authority and the financing channel handled as one negotiation.
Standing behind the fleet after delivery — crew, support and the operating envelope.
The field the fleet operates from — apron, handling and the ground the type needs.
05 — Stations
The programme office sits in Bangkok, the group structure in Singapore. Both run on the same Asian window.
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Thailand
The programme office. Bangkok carries programme management, type documentation and the technical work behind every business area.
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Singapore
The group station. Singapore holds the corporate structure, the commercial line and the fleet side of the business.
06 — Team
Four people, four areas — direction and programmes, technical and commercial, China and OEM relations, finance and administration. Open a card for the full profile, or write to the aviation desk below.
Managing Director
Direction and programmes
Aviation technical and commercial
Technical and commercial
Chinese OEM liaison
China and OEM relations
Finance and administrative planning
Finance and administration
07 — Contact
Aircraft enquiries, ACMI capacity or a commercial conversation — the desk reads every message.