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Air China took delivery of its first C919 on 29 August 2024. The C919 aircraft made its debut outside China, staging a fly-by at the pre-show of the 2024 Singapore Airshow. [73] Also at the airshow, Comac announced an order from Tibet Airlines for 40 C919s. The high-altitude variant ordered will have a shortened fuselage and strengthened ...
Investigators are urgently trying to answer the question as to what sent a packed commercial airliner plunging toward the ground in a remote, mountainous region in southern China. The incident was ...
In the 1980s, China had a "troubled" partnership with McDonnell Douglas to co-produce the MD-80, a similar-looking small jet aircraft. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The joint venture eventually collapsed, but Western analysts state that the ARJ21 is "heavily derived" from the MD-80, including its 1980s-era airframe. [ 5 ]
The aircraft was a Boeing 767-200ER registered in China as B-2552. It was delivered in 1985 and had Boeing Serial Number 23308 and Line Number 127. It was previously operated by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and then transferred to Air China after CAAC's split. It had accumulated more than 40,000 hours of flying and about ...
China wants to take a bite out of the commercial passenger aviation market with the C919, its homegrown passenger jet from the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC). State ...
CNN’s Beijing bureau chief shares his experience flying on China’s first homegrown mainline passenger plane. The C919 is China’s answer to the A320. But what is it like onboard?
China's small twin-engine plane first entered commercial service in 2016 with Chengdu Airlines. The C919 is the first large narrowbody made by China. The C919 is in size and purpose to the rival ...
C919. Comac: 168–190 seat twin-jet airliner C929: Comac: 300 seat airliner, in development C939: Comac: 400 seat airliner, in development LE500: CATIC: Aircraft HO300: SAMC: Amphibious D-600: China Aero-Vehicle Research Institute: Waterbomber Primus 100: China Aviation Industry General Aircraft: Business plane Primus 150 (E1000) China ...