title: Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute
text: # Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute
  
  The Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute (SADRI), previously known as Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute (SARI), is a Chinese design institute, part of the ACAC consortium. Founded in the 1970s as First Aircraft Design Institute Shanghai Branch it became a part of ACAC in 2002 and was renamed Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute in 2009. The design institute's head office is located at 5 Yunjin Road next to Longhua Airport in the Xuhui District of Shanghai.
  
  SADRI has done liaison engineering and airworthiness test for MD-82 and MD-90 airliners.
  
  ## Products
  
  * Shanghai Y-10 - airliner
  * Shaanxi Y-8 - co-designed reversed engineered transport aircraft with Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation
  * ARJ21 - Regional jet airliner
  * C919 - Narrow-body jet airliner
  