Aviation market in China is growing rapidly, but is based on the Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The ruling Communist Party wants to regain some of the business benefits that flow to foreign suppliers.
Reliance on Boeing and Airbus
For China, the European consortium Airbus and US Boeing to reduce dependence on the plane, and even compete against them, a unit of state-mandated effort is at least seven years.
“China’s air transport industry can not completely rely on imports. A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft, “the country’s civil aviation chief Li Jiaxiang told an audience of government officials and industry”
An aircraft Painted white with a green tail sun on a small truck in the 39-meter long aircraft equipped with a large Chinese flag was a cavernous workers of the construction project as well as a journalist from AFP news agency saw the procession .
COMAC Chairman Jin Zhuanglong says at the ceremony “The deployment of the first C 919 is a milestone in the development of China’s first indigenous aircraft”
The plane, which has a range of up to 5555 km, will make its first test flight in 2016, he said – meaning that the original term of this year will be lost.
The newspaper China Daily reported maiden voyage, even could be delivered to 2017.
China Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife and head of the “Gang of Four”, a member of the attempt to do so back in 1970 when, as dreamed of building his own civil aircraft. But heavyweight Wi–10 difficult and only three were ever made.
C919 is made in China, as well as foreign firms Systems CFM International, General American Electric (GE) and France’s Safran joint venture is created by the engine, providing an important role.
Over 500 orders
C919 costs were not disclosed. Last month, the Export-Import Bank of China for its aircraft finance $ 7.9bn project will provide the state-owned COMAC.
The company is already a COMAC statement, almost all of them from domestic buyers, the C919 has ordered 517 planes. Foreign buyers, according to Thailand’s City Airways announced last month, 10 have been ordered.
C919 is expected to enter service in 2019 at the earliest, with the plan, but it will take years for supply to customers, industry officials said.
Briand Greer, president for Asia-Pacific of Honeywell Aerospace says “There’s a lot of work to do still which is supplying four key systems for the C919: flight control, wheels and brakes, auxiliary power units and navigation. He told AFP that there are A lot of testing, a lot of flight testing, systems integration testing and of course all the certification.
COMAC is a project that is already late in the year, a small regional jet ARJ, has developed.
Test flights
First China-made passenger jet passes production line up, ARJ 78-90 seat is still undergoing test flights and lacks crucial testimony by US Federal Aviation Administration that would enable it to fly in the skies of the United States. Chinese enterprises in Russia in cooperation with the United Aircraft Corporation, wide body, and the plan C-929, and growing speculation in China to produce large civil aircraft in an attempt to strengthen aviation Aero Engines will create a new entity.
By 2034 China 6330 new aircraft worth $ 950 are expected to be added to the BN’s merchant fleet, Boeing estimates.
Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 single-aisle C919 goals affecting the sector profitable.
“The research and production of flat complex,” Ma Kai, deputy director of China’s State Council held a managerial leader. “Still a long way to go to return to the business process.”