China poised to enter Brazil's civil aviation market

SAO PAULO - China is getting ready to make its twin-engine Harbin aircraft available in the Brazilian market and to manufacture the planes locally, a company executive said on Tuesday.

"We are commercializing the first Chinese plane, with view to open a plant in (Brazil)," Jose Santos, a Brazilian representative of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, said.

The move would bring the company's Y12, Y12F and Y12E model planes to Brazil for the first time, Santos said at Sao Paulo's LABACE 2018, Latin America's biggest annual business aviation trade fair and the second largest in the world.