China’s home-grown C919 jet nears certification as test planes complete tasks
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s homegrown C919 narrow-body jet, designed to problem the Airbus-Boeing duopoly, is nearing certification as its check planes accomplished the entire check flight duties, the corporate stated on Saturday.
The state-owned producer Industrial Plane Corp of China (COMAC) stated on its official social media account that the six check planes have completed the testing duties because the programme enters the ultimate stage of receiving a certificates from the Civil Aviation Administration of China which is required for industrial operations.
That will mark a milestone in China’s ambitions to climb up the manufacturing provide chain.
Designed to compete straight with the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus 320neo households, the C919 plane programme has confronted a spread of technical points and harder U.S. export controls, after being launched in 2008, Reuters has reported.
The launch buyer is the state-owned China Japanese Airways, which has positioned an order for 5 C919 jets in March final yr. Changjiang Every day, a newspaper owned by the native authorities of Wuhan, stated in a report on July 8 the airline is scheduled to take the primary supply in August.
Assembled in China, the airplane depends closely on Western parts, together with engines and avionics.
(This story corrects to take away incorrect reference in paragraph 3 to Boeing taking up Embraer)
(Reporting by Winni Zhou, Stella Qiu and Brenda Goh, Enhancing by Louise Heavens and William Mallard)
