Comac of China: the domestic large aircraft C919 will speed up and expand production, and has now won more than 1200 orders.
CTOnews.com news on January 12, the day before yesterday, the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission released the "2022 Shanghai Science and Technology Progress report" said to speed up the construction of a large aircraft industry system.
Zhang Yujin, deputy to the Shanghai Municipal people's Congress, member of the standing Committee of the party committee and deputy general manager of the Commercial aircraft Corporation of China, revealed today that the C919 large aircraft will certainly speed up and expand production and seize market share, and the cause of large domestic aircraft will transform from comprehensive research and development to industrialization.
"at present, the first order is in China Eastern Airlines, and a number of airlines are fighting for our order." According to reports, C919 plans for the next five years, the annual production capacity is planned to reach 150 aircraft, now there are more than 1200 orders, production capacity has entered a mature period, there will be a qualitative upgrade.
At present, the domestic large aircraft C919 is undergoing intensive verification flight. after the C919 aircraft has completed the route verification flight, the Civil Aviation Administration of China will examine and inspect the verification results and issue the corresponding operation license after confirming that China Eastern Airlines has the ability to operate the C919 aircraft safely. China Eastern Airlines strives to put the C919 into commercial passenger operation in the spring of 2023.
The C919 aircraft is a 168-190-seat narrow-body trunk airliner developed by the Commercial aircraft Co., Ltd of China. It is specially designed for short-to medium-range routes. It belongs to the single-channel 150-seat class, with a standard configuration of 168 seats, and can hold up to 190 seats. The scientific name is "medium-and short-range twin-engine narrow-body civil transport aircraft". According to the previously disclosed purchase agreement, the unit price of the C919 catalogue is $99 million (about 671 million yuan) and the unit price of the RMB catalogue is 653 million yuan. For details, please see CTOnews.com 's previous report.
