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Shop selling planes opens in Hangzhou


(chinanews)
Updated: 2007-07-26 09:16





China's first general aircraft selling shop opened in Hangzhou last
Sunday.

General aircraft refers to aircraft such as helicopters, police planes,
agricultural aircraft, and private planes. The shop in Hangzhou mainly
sells helicopters and private planes.

The shop was jointly opened by Xi'an Yanliang National Aircraft Hi-tech
Industrial Base (CAIB) and Zhejiang Tiandu Industrial Co., Ltd. The shop
aims at selling aircraft to people in the Yangtze River Delta region.
CAIB decided to open an aircraft 4S shop in Hangzhou because of the
vigorous economy in the Yangtze River Delta region and the prosperous
private economy and capital in Zhejiang.

Three exhibition rooms in the shop are now open to the public, covering a
total area of 800 square meters. Three airplanes, all patrol plane
series, are displayed in these exhibition rooms. The spare parts of these
planes were made in France and the Xi'an Xijie Aircraft Maker assembled
the spare parts after they were imported to China. The three planes can
seat two people and are ideal for short-distance flights. One of them is
a helicopter, one a fixed-wing patrol plane and one a delta-wing airplane.

In Zhejiang, the first businessman that owned a private airplane was Qiu
Dedao, president of the Hangzhou Daoyuan Group, who bought a plane at 65
million yuan and later named it "Shouxiang No.1" . The plane can hold two
pilots and six passengers. After taking off, the operational cost of the
plane is 4,000 yuan an hour.

At present, most people that buy private planes are those who have a
company of their own. In Zhejiang, there are more than ten private
planes, while in China, less than 100 hundred people have their own
private planes. In light of this, many people think that there is a
promising future for China's private plane market, a market that is
described as "an upcoming era of the general aircraft" by He Yong,
president of the Zhejiang Tiandu Industrial Co., Ltd.























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