China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

ismellcopium said:

Really hard to tell, but it does look like some of those could be WS-20s, especially the green ones? Doesn't the WS-18 stick out forward a bit more? Can someone else try to estimate with the pixel lengths/widths.

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BoraTas said:

I don't think so. The WS-20 here looks just as forward if not more forward. It is hard to say because of the angle. What is certain though the engines we are seeing on the photo are way too fat for the D-30. So they are either the WS-20 or all the aircraft on the photo have all of their D-30 engine cowlings open.

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ismellcopium said:

well here it looks like just the angle, you can see how much more forward the leftmost engine appears compared to the rightmost..

Also. Actually isn't this a CJ-1000 not WS-20?

Here's another sat photo of green Y-20B I found for comparison:

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Deino said:

But are these finally Y-20B?

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Deino said:

Two more interesting news … first, the 29th Y-20A - aka serial number 20249 - for the 13th Transport Division.

And second, a YY-20A with the serial number 20740 - should be the 20th according to the latest re-numbering of tankers - also within the 13th Transport Division.

(Image via @太湖军I名 from Weibo)

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SeriousPLANLover said:

Is it the 29th Y-20A overall or is it the 29th in 13th Transport division. If that is the case what is the overall number of confirmed Y-20A transport?

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Deino said:

only within the 13th TD… overall I would say confirmed close to 60

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SeriousPLANLover said:

I don't know why Im asking it in different parts lol but in case of YY-20A, is it again the 20th only in 13th TD or in that case is it overall? Because last update we had only 17 confirmed in total.

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