Abstract: Collaborative innovation is the only way to improving independent innovation ability and core competence for aviation industry. Collaborative innovation of aviation industry has following characteristics:Openness, systematization, complexity and dynamic. Now, collaborative innovation center of aviation manufacturing industry in Jiangxi has been established, whose research area focus on design and manufacture of helicopter, hot working of aeronautical materials, measurement and evaluation of aeronautical materials and members, precision machining of aeronautical members. Collaborative innovation process of aviation industry is a complex system engineering, which need using foreign successful experience and development paths at home and abroad for reference, and should adhere to definite collaborative innovation thought, diversified collaborative innovation mode and reasonable collaborative innovation measures.