How long will it take for the C919 to meet the passengers after being awarded the aircraft type certificate?

　　China News Service, October 1 (Zhongxin Finance and Economics Ge Cheng) According to Xinhua News Agency, the C919 large passenger aircraft will receive a type certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China after completing all airworthiness certification in September 2022, and will be delivered by the end of 2022. The first aircraft.

　　Industry insiders predict that the C919 has entered the countdown to commercial operation, and we are looking forward to getting on the domestically produced large aircraft.

Data map: COMAC C919 aircraft.

Photo by Liu Lixin

The first aircraft will be delivered by the end of 2022,

　　"The official delivery of C919 requires three certificates: type certificate (representing no problem with the design), production license (representing no problem with the production process) and airworthiness certificate (representing the manufactured product is no problem)." Civil aviation expert Li Hanming told China-Singapore Finance.

　　At present, C919 has obtained the aircraft type certificate, and then it needs to obtain two certificates, which should take about three months.

At the same time, the carrier also needs a supplementary certification (it is believed that the carrier has the ability to operate the aircraft safely), Li said.

　　According to the official website of COMAC, the C919 has accumulated 815 orders from 28 customers.

On March 1, 2021, China Eastern and COMAC officially signed the first purchase contract for five C919 aircraft, and may become the first airline in the world to operate domestically produced large aircraft.

　　According to the "Fleet Planning" column of China Eastern Airlines' 2022 semi-annual report, one of the 33 aircraft that China Eastern Airlines plans to introduce in the second half of 2022 is a C919 series aircraft.

Among the 37 aircraft China Eastern plans to introduce in 2023, 4 are C919 series aircraft.

　　According to the preliminary arrangement of China Eastern Airlines, after the introduction of the above-mentioned five C919 aircraft, Shanghai will be the main base, and routes from Shanghai to Beijing Daxing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xiamen, Wuhan, Qingdao, etc. will be encrypted.

The maximum range is 5,555 kilometers, which can meet the needs of domestic long-distance routes

　　The C919 large passenger aircraft is a jet trunk passenger aircraft developed by my country in accordance with international airworthiness standards and with independent intellectual property rights.

According to the official website of COMAC, the C919 large passenger aircraft has 158-168 seats and a range of 4,075-5,555 kilometers.

　　"The theoretically longest flight route in my country's civil aviation is the flight from Sansha, Hainan to Kashgar, Xinjiang, with a length of about 4,400 kilometers; the longest flight between the two provincial capital cities in China is from Urumqi, Xinjiang to Haikou, Hainan, with a length of about 3,500 kilometers. "Li Hanming told Zhongxin Finance and Economics that the standard range of C919 is 4075 kilometers. Therefore, except for rare cases such as Sansha to Kashgar, C919 can meet the needs of domestic flights and my country's travel to and from neighboring countries such as East Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia. .

　　"At the same time, the C919 also has a version with a larger fuel tank and an extended range of 5,555 kilometers, so it can fly farther and the range is not a problem." Li Hanming added.

The picture shows the C919 model at the Service Trade Fair.

Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jun

It took 15 years for C919 to go from project approval to

　　According to the C919 Memorabilia on COMAC's official website, the establishment of the domestic large aircraft project dates back to 2007.

　　Three years after the project was established, in 2010, the 1:1 demonstration prototype of the C919 large passenger aircraft was exhibited for the first time at the Zhuhai Air Show, and received 100 start-up orders.

Five years later, on November 2, 2015, the first C919 was officially assembled and rolled off the assembly line at the Pudong base.

　　Two years later, in 2017, the C919 large passenger aircraft flew for the first time in Shanghai, and then transferred from Shanghai to Yanliang, Xi'an on November 10 of the same year, and officially launched the follow-up flight test and evidence collection test.

　　By October 24, 2019, C919 large passenger aircraft 105 (the fifth C919) completed its first test flight.

On March 1, 2021, China Eastern Airlines and COMAC officially signed the purchase contract for the first batch of five C919 aircraft.

　　After 15 years, the C919 large passenger aircraft has obtained the type certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China after completing all the airworthiness certification work.

　　The successful development of the C919 large passenger aircraft and the obtaining of the type certificate indicate that my country has the ability to independently develop world-class large passenger aircraft and is an important milestone in the development of my country's large aircraft industry.

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