GE Aerospace + Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)
GE Aerospace
Evendale, Ohio · 1 relationship
Active relationship
Joint Venture · 2012–present
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)
Beijing, Beijing · 1 relationship
Analysis
AVIAGE SYSTEMS is a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). The company's current history page reports a $1.3 billion investment and a March 2012 establishment date, following a 2009 cooperation framework and a 2010 selection to provide avionics for COMAC's C919 program. [1]
The venture's role is systems-focused rather than airframe manufacturing. AVIAGE says it supplies an integrated avionics solution for the C919 across three packages and five subsystems, including core aircraft functions such as communications, navigation, display and flight management; GE describes the joint venture's scope as including integrated modular avionics, displays, onboard maintenance systems, flight recorders and flight-management systems. [2] [3]
The C919 program provides the clearest operating milestones. AVIAGE records installation and testing of the first C919 avionics in 2016, support for the aircraft's first flight in 2017 and a 2023 entry into commercial service; its current product description says it continues to work with COMAC on post-certification enhancements, model evolution and sustained airworthiness. [1] [2]
The partnership has also expanded beyond the original avionics award: the company lists a 2019 CAAC Part 145 maintenance approval, a 2020 first MRO part and a 2023 Beidou-III aircraft-tracking certification, while recording the 2024 establishment of AvioNova in Chengdu. These milestones indicate a lifecycle model covering design, certification support, maintenance and later upgrades. The file's annualVolume and annualPapers fields remain separate estimates; AVIAGE's public pages report investment and milestones, not annual revenue or a complete publication census. [1] [4]
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GE Aerospace is the aviation business operated by General Electric Company and became an independent public company on April 2, 2024, following the spin-off of GE Vernova. The company continues to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker GE, and its principal executive offices are at 1 Neumann Way in Evendale, Ohio. [1] [2]
The company designs, manufactures, and services propulsion and aircraft systems for commercial and defense aviation. Its commercial business covers jet engines and lifecycle services, while its systems portfolio includes integrated propulsion, avionics, electrical power, flight-management tools, and related through-life support. [3] [4]
GE Aerospace’s 2025 annual-report materials describe a large installed base and a service-led operating model: the company reported 57,000 employees, said that technology from GE Aerospace and its partners was underwing for nearly one million people in the air, and reported roughly $190 billion of backlog at the end of 2025. The same report says the company and its customers and partners invest nearly $3 billion annually in research and development. [5]
Defense and propulsion activities include jet, turboshaft, and turboprop engines, propulsion components, electrical power, mission systems, and other aircraft subsystems for military and government customers. GE Aerospace’s published military-products overview also includes engines and propellers, open computing and networking, mission and flight management systems, power generation and distribution, and transmission components, showing that the business extends beyond engine manufacture into integrated aviation systems. [6]
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)
Beijing, Beijing · 1 record in this database
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is a centrally managed Chinese state-owned enterprise and is listed by China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission among the country's central enterprises. An AVIC-affiliated institute describes the group as an ultra-large enterprise whose activities cover aviation weapons and equipment, military transport aircraft, helicopters, airborne systems, general aviation, aviation research and flight testing, aviation supply chains and trade, special equipment, finance, asset management and engineering construction. [1] [2]
AVIC therefore operates as a broad industrial group rather than as a single-aircraft manufacturer. Its stated scope combines aircraft and airborne-system development with research, testing, logistics, engineering and related industrial and financial activities, creating a platform that connects defense-oriented and civil-aviation capabilities within one corporate system. [1]
A 2025 industrial compendium from France's Directorate General of Armament identifies AVIC's aircraft-manufacturing network as including Chengdu, Shenyang, Guizhou, Hongdu, Xi'an and Shaanxi manufacturers, together with Harbin's helicopter manufacturing activity. The same source distinguishes AVIC from China's separate aero-engine group, underscoring the importance of treating AVIC as a diversified aviation and aerospace group with changing subsidiary boundaries. [3]
AVIC's relevance to this database includes its avionics partnership with GE. AVIAGE SYSTEMS states that it is a 50/50 joint venture between GE and AVIC, established in March 2012 with a stated $1.3 billion investment. GE says the venture supplied integrated modular avionics, displays, onboard maintenance systems, flight recorders and flight-management systems for COMAC's C919, making AVIC a direct participant in a major civil-aircraft systems program. [4] [5]