BASIC IMAGERY INTERPRETATION REPORT NAN-CHANG AIRFRAME PLANT 320 NAN-CHANG, CHINA

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 1, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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Basic Imagery Interpretation Report
Nan-chang Airframe Plant 320
Nan-chang, China
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Nan-chang Airframe Plant 320
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MAP REFERENCE
28-38-05N 115-54-59E
DIA. USATC 200 Sheet 0493-22HL, 3rd ed, Feb 64, Scale 1:200,000
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ABSTRACT
Although Nan-chang 320 is the smallest of Communist China's airframe
plants, it is important because of its light aircraft and probable SSN-2
(Styx) cruise missile production. AN-2 (Colt) and YAK-18 (Max) utility
and liaison aircraft have been produced at this plant since the late 1950's
and are apparently still in production as evidenced by the continuing
presence of both types of aircraft.
The presence of nine Styx missile crates at the plant on August 1966
photography indicated that Nan-chang 320 was China's production site for
this missile. No Styx crates were visible at the plant on the previous
coverage of May 1965, but since August 1966 they have been observed in in-
creasing numbers.
To date, this plant has had the least expansion of any of China's air-
frame plants. Only four major buildings have been constructed since the
plant was first observed on photography in September 1956. At that time it
contained approximately three-fourths its present floor space of 1.9 million
square feet.
NOTE: This report has been published as an interim Basic Imagery
Interpretation Report with the concurrence of the Defense
Intelligence Agency.
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Nan-chang Airframe Plant is located in Kiangsi Province at 28-38-05N
115-54-59E, approximately two nautical miles south of the city of Nan-chang.
The plant is served by road and by a spur of the Shanghai to Chu-chou rail
line.
BASIC DESCRIPTION
When first observed in September 1956, Plant 320 contained approximately
1.4 million square feet of floor space. All major construction and expansion
of the plant were completed between September 1956 and June 1962. The plant
presently (June 1968) contains 1.9 million square feet of floor space. Fig-
ure 3 and its accompanying table provide a detailed functional and dimen-
sional analysis of the plant's facilities.
The adjacent Nan-chang Airfield New is the test and flyaway field for
the airframe plant. The airfield has a north-northeast/south-southwest,
serviceable concrete runway, consisting of a by 230-fo6t-wide 25X1
older portion and a 2950-fooHfoot-wide ex ension. It also has a 25X1
concrete taxiway, one parking apron, three maintenance aprons, a compass
rose, and a test revetment. The test revetment now serves as a small arms
range.
The plant has been a producer of light aircraft since the late 1950's,
with AN-2 (Colt) and YAK-18 (Max) utility and liaison aircraft having been
observed there since 1956. The photography indicates that Nan-chang 320
probably began production of SSN-2 (Styx) cruise missiles sometime between
May 1965 and August 1966 when Styx missile crates were first present at the
plant. Since then Styx missile crates have been observed on all subsequent
good-quality coverage in increasing numbers.
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Maps and Charts
DIA. U.S. Air Target Chart 200 Sheet 0493-22HL, 3rd edition, Feb 64,
Scale 1:200,000 (SECRET CONTROLLED DIS'EM)
1. CIA. PIR 1003/64, The Chinese Communist Aircraft Industr 4-
1963, April 1964, SECRET
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