The domestically produced large amphibious aircraft AG600 "Kunlong" completed the 2026 Gagdaqi northern Xinjiang garrison mission

China News Service, Beijing, October 5 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) The reporter learned from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China on the 5th that the domestically produced large-scale amphibious aircraft AG600 "Kunlong" successfully completed various garrison tasks in Jiagdaqi Northern Xinjiang in 2026, successfully concluded the four-month aviation emergency duty and fire prevention combat mission in the forest area, and used hard-core domestic aviation power to build a solid ecological security barrier in the primeval forest area of ​​the Greater Khingan Mountains.

After four months of non-stop field operations, AG600 delivered an outstanding performance. As of the end of the mission, the AG600 has carried out a total of 35 forest patrol missions, with a safe flight time of 100 hours and a total water input of about 390 tons, effectively curbing the risk of forest fire spread. During the mission, the AG600 aircraft participated in the "Safe Northern Xinjiang·2026" practical forest fire drill in the Daxinganling primeval forest area. Relying on the equipment advantages of low altitude, low speed, large water carrying capacity, and strong maneuverability, it completed high-intensity fire-fighting tasks such as ground-to-air coordination and cluster attack on crown fires. It comprehensively tested the emergency dispatch and actual fire-fighting capabilities of domestic large-scale aviation emergency rescue equipment in the complex forest environment of Northern Xinjiang.

The domestically produced large amphibious aircraft AG600 "Kunlong" successfully completed various garrison tasks in northern Xinjiang. (Photo courtesy of Aviation Industry Corporation of China)

This stationing is an important practice for the AG600 aircraft to move towards large-scale and normalized stationing after obtaining the Type Certificate (TC Certificate) and Production License (PC Certificate) from the Civil Aviation Administration of China in 2025, fully demonstrating the actual combat application value of the equipment. By taking root in the forest area for a long time to carry out garrison operations, the guarantee team has fully adapted to the complex terrain and changeable meteorological environment of northern Xinjiang, continuously verified the reliability, adaptability and actual combat performance of the equipment, accumulated a large amount of precious first-hand data on field garrison and actual fire fighting, further improved the national aviation emergency rescue equipment forest area operation standard system, and laid a solid practical foundation for the subsequent promotion of normalized and large-scale application of AG600 aircraft in multiple regions across the country.

The regular presence of AG600 aircraft on duty is a major breakthrough in the construction of the forest fire prevention system in the Greater Khingan Mountains. It creates a new model of forest fire prevention and extinguishing, and provides strong aviation equipment support for protecting the precious ecological resources of the Greater Khingan Mountains and building a strong ecological security barrier in northern Xinjiang.

The successful completion of this garrison mission in northern Xinjiang by the AG600 aircraft is a landmark achievement of the industrialization, practicality, and large-scale operation of domestic large-scale aviation emergency equipment. It is also an important and vivid practice of our country's insistence on self-reliance in science and technology, coordinating development and safety, and deepening the construction of ecological civilization. In the future, as the large-scale and regular application of AG600 aircraft continues to deepen, it will further improve the national aviation emergency rescue network, continue to empower land ecological protection, disaster prevention, mitigation and relief work, and inject strong aviation power into building a solid national ecological security barrier and improving the modernization level of national emergency management.