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.[1] 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.[2]