J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII
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I am a little confused here. Supposedly this will be one of J-20 on Changchun Airshow for display, photo taken when they were training for the show.
Serial No. 61025, from 1st Brigade. However the comment section said that this specific aircraft is fresh out of production line, to my understanding, CMA has photo record of 61120 for quite a well, how is 61025 supposed to be newly built?
Perhaps @Deino could help. If this specific J-20 indeed has a fresh production date, it will give a clear idea on how far they are really going on in CAC factory instead of rumors.
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Serial No. 61025, from 1st Brigade. However the comment section said that this specific aircraft is fresh out of production line, to my understanding, CMA has photo record of 61120 for quite a well, how is 61025 supposed to be newly built?
Perhaps @Deino could help. If this specific J-20 indeed has a fresh production date, it will give a clear idea on how far they are really going on in CAC factory instead of rumors.
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Finally!!! :p The first J-20A assigned to the 1st Air Brigade at Anshan is confirmed. And with no. 61120 it is already this unit's tenth aircraft. (Image via @CN_military_21)
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Well, I don't think 61025 is a factory-fresh one since we have seen several ones in January '22 already (per my list up to no. 21125 aka no. 15). As such I would be most surprised if no. 05 would be off the sequence a very new one. All so far identified J-20s at Anshan are Batch 02 aircarft or had CB025x numbers.
If it would be indeed a recent one I expect at least a Batch 07 higher than CB07156 or Batch 08 or even 09.
It is indeed very confusing! But many blogger claimed that this very "61025" aircraft was delivered in a matter of days, meaning it could be batch 10 or even 11 & 12.
Well, we only have to wait for a weekend to see its batch number on Airshow. My theory, if true, could be that they re-paint the serial number with a new plane and the old one was sent for maintenance and rotate to someone else.
Update: @萌虎鲸 also said, "F**k, this is a new plane that was just delivered a couple days ago."
Is it possible to deduce/guesstimate the rough number of J-20s built and/or handed over to the PLAAF by now, based on the recent information?
Pardon if I don't understand your question correctly, but what "recent information"? The rumours concerning the up to triple-digit production rate or this image?
The "61025" J-20 image at Changchun and the "this J-20 was just delivered a couple days ago" mention.
In fact no, - but maybe @Blitzo knows more ? - since as long as we don't know its construction numbers, the PLAAF-serial 61025 tells us only it is no. 05 within the 1st Air Brigade at Anshan.
In fact my feeling tells me - especially since it is from Cute Orca - they just want to tease and test how long it takes until that strange German Minion-Man re-posts this!
