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SAC FC-31

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Lightweight, twin-engine, two-seat, stealth fighter. Includes a carrier-borne fighter variant.

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Turbofan

Application

Fighter, Trainer

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Composite

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Pressurisation

Pressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Full FBW digital

Autopilot

3-axis

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Environmental control

Engine-bleed air-cycle

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Mid

Planform

Swept

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Certification

Military

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Head-up display Standard

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
SAC FC-31	2014 / 2012		Single-seat light fighter aircraft, also known as FC-31 Gyrfalcon and J-31.
SAC J-35	2024 / 2021		Multirole stealth fighter, also known as J-XY, includes J-35A PLAAF variant.

Airframer

AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Industries (Group) Company Ltd

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