comac c919

On December 23, Air China released an announcement stating that the company is seeking to issue more shares to raise funds for 17 new aircraft.

On Sept. 28, China Eastern and COMAC announced a new order of 100 COMAC C919s. This order is yet the largest confirmed order of C919 from a single airline, and the 100 jets will be delivered to China Eastern from 2024 through 2031. The delivery schedule reported by the media is listed below: Year 2024 […]

On May 28, a China Eastern COMAC C919 took to the sky and began the first commercial flight of the Chinese-manufactured jet. Since then, COMAC’s C919 was placed on the route between Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport and Chengdu’s Tianfu International Airport. This aircraft has attracted a lot of aviation enthusiasts, both from home and abroad, […]

A few days ago in Beijing, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury signed new cooperation agreements with Chinese aviation industry partners, reaffirming the strategic partnership that Airbus and Chinese aviation began nearly 40 years ago. The first agreement relates to the expansion of the Tianjin facility, which will increase the final assembly capacity of the Airbus A320 […]

The Comac C919 is a twin-engine narrow-body low-wing airliner made by the Chinese company Comac — short for Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China. It began the design and construction stages in 2009 with the aim of entering the short- and medium-haul market, and since its announcement has aroused much interest in the aviation world as […]

The first deliverable COMAC C919, a Chinese-designed narrow-body jet, is now entering the final assembly process at the manufacturer’s Shanghai factory, aiming for a year-end delivery for this highly anticipated jet. China Eastern will be the owner of the first C919, and its maiden flight is projected to take off in the first half of […]

Chinese aircraft manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China — shortened to Comac — has received the type inspection authorization for its C919 narrowbody aircraft, allowing it to move to the final phase of flight testing and eventual certification, FlightGlobal reports. Comac will promptly begin testing the aircraft, and it hopes to receive an airworthiness certificate […]