page_title: Shaanxi Y-8
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Shaanxi Y-8 / Variants
caption_attribution_description: 中文（台灣）‎: 中國解放軍海軍航空兵高新4號
context_page_description: The Shaanxi Y-8 or Yunshuji-8 aircraft is a medium size medium range transport aircraft produced by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation in China, based on the Soviet Antonov An-12. It has become one of China's most popular military and civilian transport/cargo aircraft, with many variants produced and exported. Although the An-12 is no longer made in Ukraine, the Chinese Y-8 continues to be upgraded and produced. An estimated 169 Y-8 aircraft had been built by 2010.
context_section_description: Y-8: The baseline unpressurized transport aircraft produced primarily for transport duties with the PLAAF.
  Y-8A: Helicopter transport aircraft with rear loading ramp, travelling gantry removed and a hydraulically operated steady under the rear door.
  Y-8AF: ASW platform under tests, with extended magnetic anomaly detector at the tail, the latest military version, looks similar to Y-8 Mineral research plane.
  Y-8B: Unpressurised freight/passenger transport aircraft for CAAC.
  Y-8C: Fully pressurised transport version with the rear cargo ramp of the Y-8B.
  Y-8CA: (a.k.a. 'High New 1') Electronic Countermeasures aircraft with extensive arrays of aerials and a ventral canoe.
  Y-8CB: ECM variant, characterized by a sharp pointed nose cone.
  Y-8D: Export military transport fitted with western avionics. The initial Y-8D was superseded by the Y-8DII.
  Y-8DZ: (Dianzi Zhencha 电子侦察 - ELINT)(a.k.a.'High New 2') Electronic signals intelligence version characterized by the cylindrical array just in front of the vertical stabilizer.
  Y-8E: Drone carrier aircraft for launching WZ-5 Chang Hong-1(Chang Hong 长虹 - long rainbow) reconnaissance drones, reverse-engineered Ryan Firebees, to replace Tu-4 Drone launchers..
  Y-8F: Livestock transport aircraft with three tiers of cages either side of a central aisle, able to accommodate 350 sheep or goats. The livestock transport was developed to allow access to remote seasonal pastures.
  Y-8FQ: Maritime Patrol variant with modified tail housing a boom-mounted magnetic anomaly detector to detect submarines.
  Y-8F-100: Fitted with more powerful engines, EFIS, colour weather radar, TCAS and GPS.
  Y-8F-200: This model has a 2.2m (7 ft 10in) stretched fuselage.Capacity: 23 tons. 
  Y-8F-300: Civil transport with western avionics. Capacity: 23 tons. 
  Y-8F-400: As for Y-8F-300 but with pressurised cargo hold. Capacity: 23 tons. 
  Y-8F-600: Newest civilian transport variant with a redesigned fuselage, Pratt and Whitney turboprop engines, an Electronic Flight Instrument System "glass cockpit",  and a two-person crew. Capacity: 25 tons. 
  Y-8GX1: Electronic Warfare (VHF/UHF Tactical Jamming).
  Y-8GX3: Airborne Command Post and ECM version a.k.a. 'High New 3' based on the Y-8F-200.
  Y-8GX4: ELINT platform (project).
  Y-8GX7: Electronic attack (radio propaganda/psyops). At least 3 known to be in service stationed in Fujian.
  Y-8G: IFR tanker. (project).
  Y-8H: Aerial survey aircraft.
  Y-8J: AWACS aircraft with British GEC-Marconi Argus-2000 (RACAL Skymaster) L-band pulse-doppler search radar in a large nose radome, with work stations for the operators in the cargo hold. Reputedly fully pressurised but lacking the cargo ramp associated with pressurised cargo holds.
  Y-8J: AEW aircraft with Sky Master radar.
  Y-8JB: ELINT variant.
  Y-8K: 121-seat airliner.
  Y-8Q: ASW variant, surface search radar, FLIR, internal bomb bay, SATCOM, and tail MAD. Also identified in one source as Y-8GX6.
  Y-8T: C3I command post and battlefield surveillance aircraft based on the Y-8F-400. Some sources claim it is an ECM aircraft.
  Y-8U: Experimental aircraft equipped with British Mk 32 aerial refueling pods for the development of Chinese aerial refueling technology.
  Y-8W: An AWACS version of the KJ-200 with 'Balance Beam phased array radar mounted above the fuselage. Also identified as Y-8GX5 or Y-8WH.
  Y-8X: (Xun 巡 - surveillance) Maritime Patrol Aircraft with western avionics, radar, mission systems and defensive aids. Some aircraft have been known to carry ELINT packages. Equipped with Litton Canada AN/APS-504(V) search radar for maritime surveillance missions. This version is characterized by a larger cylindrical radar radome under the nose similar to that on H-6 bomber.
  Y-8XZ: (a.k.a. 'High New 7') a Psychological warfare aircraft for broadcasting TV and radio propaganda.
  KJ-200
  Y-8 AWACS: Characterized by the large Rotodome strut supported over the rear fuselage and the triple tail configuration with large trapezoidal auxiliary fins at the tips of the tailplane, similar to the Beriev A-50.
  Y-8 AWACS: Another AWACS version was studied at Shaanxi with large
caption: Y-8GX4 (August 2017)
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