Are these the first pictures of China’s new military transport plane taking to the skies?

Photographs and videos circulating online on Tuesday showed a four-engine turboprop aircraft. The most detailed images showed it had six-blade propellers, a T-tail, a blended winglet configuration and possibly an aerial refuelling probe positioned above the cockpit – a structure found on the Airbus A400M. A model of the new medium-lift transport, developed by the Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation, first went on display at the 2014 Zhuhai Airshow with the provisional designation of Y-30. However, some of the latest pictures show a fuselage number reading 15001, which might be a sign that the plane will end up being designated at the…