The Fu-hsing AP-1 was a Chinese two-seat, single-engine trainer aircraft first flown in 1936.
Development Shiukwan Aircraft Works was established in 1935 under cooperation between the Guangdong government and Curtiss-Wright and the aircraft was developed by Chinese and American engineers based on the North American NA-16 and Stearman 76. The plane was first flown on 20 May 1936 and unveiled on 22 May in Guangzhou.
The initial production plans included ten advanced trainers and ten armed multi-purpose aircraft. In August 1936 they were changed to twenty advanced trainers, of which fifteen were to be fitted with camera and armament, yet only one was fitted with a camera. Production started in Guangdong and later continued in Kunming after the evacuation of the factory. Twenty AP-1s were built before the production run ended on 14 January 1941.
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