jiatai aircraft equipment co., ltd. (hereinafter referred to as jiatai), under avic cabin systems co., ltd, is a high-tech enterprise engaged in research and development, production and sales of commercial aircraft seat, cabin equipment, aviation parts. jiatai is located in the famous historical and cultural city of xiangyang,hubei province.
the mission of jiatai is to devote its industrial development to the development of national aviation industry. for the past 20 years, it has insisted on self-dependent innovation, proprietary intellectual property rights and establishment of first-rate professional strength and national brand.
after years of effort, especially through the accelerated promotion of professional technology in recent years, jiatai has developed strong scientific r&d ability, test verification ability, manufacturing ability and airworthiness management ability.
jiatai has a team consisting of complete professional engineering technicians engaging in the structure, strength, nonmetal, flammability, man-machine environment, industrial design, electric, etc. it also possesses over 20 years of experience in researching and developing seats of civil aircraft of more than 40 types, the full solutions to the passenger cabin seat, as well as rich supporting, installation and service experience concerning hundreds of aircrafts.
jiatai has advanced and improved testing equipment and is expertly capable of researching and testing of dynamic and static strength, fatigue life, man-machine environment comfort, etc. jiatai, as one of the representatives of the entities appointed by caac, has been granted with dor certificated by caac for its dynamic impact testing.
jiatai is carrying out a rapid establishment of its manufacturing equipment, team and manufacturing line. up to now, it is capable of manufacturing 12,000 economy class seats and 1,000 business class seats annually.
so far, jiatai has gained 48 certificates issued by caac, 2 faa lodas and employed 3 caac ders, 3 dmirs and 3 maintenance & release employees.
jiatai is improving the interior equipment installed in various civil aircraft and strengthening the system construction of the enterprise to provide high-quality products and service to the customer and realize win-win development with the customer. jiatai has cooperated with major domestic airlines, as well comac, avic xi’an aircraft industry (group) co., ltd. and other main oems. the seats manufactured by jiatai have been installed on arj21, ma60 and xian ma600 and a series of aircraft produced by boeing and airbus and exported to more than ten countries with the regional aircraft ma60. jiatai has become the gold supplier of xac. the civil aircraft products manufactured by jiatai – commercial aircraft seat, cabin life equipment, aviation parts (pma) have been serialized.
based on domestic mainstream market, jiatai insists on international development strategy, actively integrates into international aviation industrial chain and strives to enter the global market firmly. the kky400 seat developed by jiatai in 2011 won faa-tso final design approval. therefore, jiatai became the first domestic manufacturer winning this approval for sophisticated aviation machinery product, marking that the technological level of the products produced by jiatai has reached international technical standard. jiatai started to apply to be the supplier of boeing in 2012 and aribus in 2013. and it successfully gained the qualification for the limited supplier of boeing and bombardier in that very year.
in 2016, the kky420 economy passenger seat developed by jiatai obtained the airworthiness certificate issued by federal aviation administration. it also officially entered the customer selection center of boeing company, marking that the seats produced by jiatai entered the international market officially to compete fairly with those produced by foreign brands. in apr. 2016, jiatai delivered the seats to seattle general assembly plant of boeing for the first time; it is predicted that in jul. 2017, jiatai will finish the authentication procedure of supplier of airbus and become a bfe supplier of airbus.
up to now, jiatai is the only chinese equipment supplier of boeing company with self-owned intellectual property rights. what’s more, jiatai is also the only seat supplier in aisa with independent design and manufacture approval authorized by federal aviation administration (faa) and the only domestic supplier of seat for high-speed train with self-owned intellectual property rights.
over the years, jiatai has been successively awarded the titles of high-tech enterprise of hubei province, provincial technical center, technological innovation enterprise of xiangyang, internship base for college graduates. jiatai has made an important contribution to the advancement of the scientific and technological level of local industrial enterprises, the development of relevant local industry and the improvement of the overall quality of the labor force. it was awarded “may day labor medal of merit” by hubei federation of trade unions in 2016.