Final work on C919 by year's end
By Yang Jian |
March 6, 2012, Tuesday
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THE Commercial Aircraft Corp of China will finish work on the country's first homemade jumbo jet, the C919, by the end of this year, and the aviation regulator encourages domestic airlines to buy the plane, whose maiden flight will be 2014.
COMAC will finish designing, manufacturing and launching experiments on the 150-seat jet, which has a flying range of 4,075 kilometers this year, said Wu Guanghui, vice manager of COMAC and chief designer of the aircraft.
He said the final assembly of the jet will be done at the new COMAC assembly center, which is nearing completion in Shanghai's Pudong New Area.
Wu said the C919 would first fly with imported engines from CFM International, which also supplies engines to Boeing and Airbus.
There are plans for the jet to fly with homemade engines by 2020.
Li Jiaxiang, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the regulator, said: "Domestic airlines should choose the C919 because the Chinese plane has advantage on price."
COMAC will finish designing, manufacturing and launching experiments on the 150-seat jet, which has a flying range of 4,075 kilometers this year, said Wu Guanghui, vice manager of COMAC and chief designer of the aircraft.
He said the final assembly of the jet will be done at the new COMAC assembly center, which is nearing completion in Shanghai's Pudong New Area.
Wu said the C919 would first fly with imported engines from CFM International, which also supplies engines to Boeing and Airbus.
There are plans for the jet to fly with homemade engines by 2020.
Li Jiaxiang, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the regulator, said: "Domestic airlines should choose the C919 because the Chinese plane has advantage on price."
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