02 March 2016

News Story: China Reports Y-20 Aircraft IOC in 2017

Wendell Minnick

Y-20 Earns Chubby Girl Nickname

TAIPEI - The Chinese-language People’s Daily newspaper has reported that China’s first strategic airlifter, the Y-20 military cargo aircraft, will begin initial operational capability (IOC) this year.

In an article published on Feb. 29, the People’s Daily quoted local military experts indicating that since the Y-20s first flight in 2013 the aircraft had undergone test flights without “bottlenecks.”

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