China News Network, Beijing, February 23 (Reporter Sun Zifa) China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. (Commercial Aviation Corporation of China), which undertakes the development of large passenger aircraft and coordinates the development of trunk and regional aircraft, announced on the 23rd that it has developed the new ARJ21 regional branch. The test flight of 103 aircraft and 131 aircraft was carried out at Shanghai Pudong Airport and Dachang Airport on the 22nd. The test flight was also the first flight of 131 aircraft.

At 9:22 a.m. on the 22nd, 131 ARJ21 aircraft took off from Shanghai Dachang Airport, performed a production test flight, landed successfully after 3 hours and 39 minutes of flight, and successfully completed the first flight.

131 ARJ21 aircraft made their first flight at Shanghai Dachang Airport. Photo courtesy COMAC

At Pudong Airport, 103 ARJ21 aircraft took off at 10:31, and after an hour and 43 minutes of flight, they successfully landed after completing one SPC (Stall Protection Computer) check-in mission.

COMAC introduced that in the face of the urgent situation of epidemic prevention and control and shouldering the burden of model production, the company grasped epidemic control in one hand, resumed production and resumed flight in one hand, and firmly promoted model development, production and operation.

In order to ensure the smooth flight of 103 aircraft and the first flight of 131 aircraft, COMAC's working teams actively coordinated the implementation of internal and external epidemic prevention and control requirements, and both the epidemic prevention and control responsibility and flight safety responsibility were implemented to ensure that epidemic prevention and control Sequence, the aircraft is in good condition, and the flight is implemented smoothly and safely, so that the two aircraft can fly together. (Finish)