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China’s homegrown 737 competitor has to wait a while to fill the vacuum left by Boeing: Europe says COMAC’s C919 is ‘too new’ to approve by 2026 Lionel Lim March 15, 2024 at 4:09 AM
The Comac C939 is a planned long-range wide-body twinjet airliner family being developed by Chinese Comac as a competitor to the Boeing 777 and Airbus A350. [1] It is designed to be larger than the other two models in its domestically produced aircraft line: the Comac C919 and Comac C929.
The China-based airline maker has been working for well over a decade to build a challenger commercial aircraft that can shake up Boeing and Airbus’s stronghold.
In June 2012, Russia and China entered talks to set up a joint venture between UAC and Comac to develop a successor to the Il-96. Development was expected to take at least seven years and cost $7–12 billion, with a production target of several hundred aircraft. Russia would contribute its knowledge and China would provide the resources. [3]
After 15 years of production, China's first homegrown mainline aircraft launched in May 2023. The C919 narrowbody plane hopes to secure its first order from a Western carrier, Reuters reported.
The Comac C919 is a narrow-body airliner developed by Chinese aircraft manufacturer Comac.The development program was launched in 2008. Production began in December 2011, with the first prototype being rolled out on 2 November 2015; the maiden flight took place on 5 May 2017.
The plane used Boeing's 707-320C as reference, designed according to Federal Aviation Regulation (Part 25, 1970 edition). [ 2 ] Due to unavailability of the intended WS-8 turbofan engines the prototype aircraft used Pratt & Whitney JT3D -7 turbofan engines, acquired as spare engines for CAAC 's small fleet of Boeing 707 aircraft.
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