Chinese Aviation Industry
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- June 13, 2016, 12:54 PM
A Chinese consortium has placed an order for 100 Airbus Helicopters to be assembled in Qingdao, Shandong Province, beginning in 2018. The deal is worth approximately $790 million. (Photo: Airbus Helicopters)
A Chinese consortium today finalized a $790 million, 10-year contract for 100 Airbus H135 light twins to be assembled in Qingdao, Shandong Province beginning in 2018. The consortium is composed of China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS), Qingdao United General Aviation Industrial Development Company (Qingdao United) and CITIC Offshore Helicopter Co. Ltd (COHC). A letter of intent for the deal was announced last year.
The agreement was signed today in Beijing's Great Hall of People, in the presence of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The H135 has gained popularity in China in recent years, performing various parapublic, corporate and tourism missions. Worldwide, nearly 1,200 H135s are in service and the fleet has logged more than three million flight hours.
“With the further opening up of the Chinese skies and the increasing growth in the civil and parapublic segments, China is gearing up to be the biggest market for helicopters in years to come,” said Norbert Ducrot, head of Airbus Helicopters China and North Asia region. The company forecasts a demand for sales of up to 600 light-twin helicopters in China over the next 20 years.
China's COMAC C919 may make Maiden Flight in 2016, this year
Photo taken on Feb. 29, 2016 shows a test bench for C919 plane at its research base in Shanghai Aircraft Design And Research Institute of the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), in Shanghai, east China.
The C919 plane, China's first domestically-produced large passenger aircraft, was developed by the COMAC. C919 has 158 seats, a standard range of 4,075 kilometers and an extended range of 5,555 kilometers. The C919 plane is scheduled to have its maiden flight in 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]
China's first domestically produced large passenger aircraft, C919, is to make its maiden flight in the second half of this year, Chinese Flight Test Establishment told Xinhua-affiliated business newspaper Economic Information Daily on Monday.
However the Commercial Aircraft Cooperation of China (COMAC), the maker of C919, told the media later the jet is still being tested, and its maiden flight could be postponed till next year.
C919 is expected to strengthen China's capacity in high-end equipment manufacturing and make the country a real manufacturing power.
Twenty-one foreign and domestic customers have already placed 517 orders for the jet.
According to a report released by COMAC, the potential market of C919 is worth more than 650 billion yuan (100 billion U.S. dollars).
The C919 jet was developed by COMAC.
The basic model has 158 seats, a standard range of 4,075 kilometers and an extended range of 5,555 kilometers.
COMAC said the jet has extended, shortened, cargo and business versions in the pipeline. In addition, this new-generation jet will have flexible cabin designs to meet the needs and preferences of different airlines.
According to local web portal Jiemian News, the jet has completed its tests on system, equipment and apparatus installments. Further tests such as flight control, which means controlling an aircraft's direction in flight, to make sure it fly stably, will be taken after its maiden flight.
The first flight of C919 has been rescheduled from 2014 to 2016.
COMAC explained that the standards needed to acquire the International Airworthiness Certificate, which C919 desired to enter intentional markets, translated into a large amount of independent research and development by Chinese technicians, which slowed down the whole process.
The jet also features low fuel consumption. It will use 13 to 15 percent less oil compared with its current competitors.
Before C919, China had proved it has aviation manufacturing acumen, despite failing to exploit products to their full commercial potential.
The country developed its first large passenger aircraft, the Y-10, a four-engine narrow-body jet airliner in the 1970s.
The plane, which seated 149 people in economy, had a successful test flight on September 26, 1980, and visited a number of Chinese cities, including the plateau city of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Unfortunately, the project was canceled in 1985 due to viability and budgetary reasons. At that time, China had already opened up, and had a modest fleet of Western-produced aircraft.
China resumed the pursuit of its aircraft dream in 2008 when COMAC produced the ARJ21-700 regional jet, China's first airliner independently designed in accordance with international standards. The 5-seat per row jet was awarded airworthiness certificates from both the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency.
The ARJ21-700 underwent six years of grueling tests before the civil aviation authority awarded its accreditation in 2014.
Photo taken on Feb. 29, 2016 shows a test bench for C919 plane at its research base in Shanghai Aircraft Design And Research Institute of the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), in Shanghai, east China.
The C919 plane, China's first domestically-produced large passenger aircraft, was developed by the COMAC. C919 has 158 seats, a standard range of 4,075 kilometers and an extended range of 5,555 kilometers. The C919 plane is scheduled to have its maiden flight in 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]
China's first domestically produced large passenger aircraft, C919, is to make its maiden flight in the second half of this year, Chinese Flight Test Establishment told Xinhua-affiliated business newspaper Economic Information Daily on Monday.
However the Commercial Aircraft Cooperation of China (COMAC), the maker of C919, told the media later the jet is still being tested, and its maiden flight could be postponed till next year.
C919 is expected to strengthen China's capacity in high-end equipment manufacturing and make the country a real manufacturing power.
Twenty-one foreign and domestic customers have already placed 517 orders for the jet.
According to a report released by COMAC, the potential market of C919 is worth more than 650 billion yuan (100 billion U.S. dollars).
The C919 jet was developed by COMAC.
The basic model has 158 seats, a standard range of 4,075 kilometers and an extended range of 5,555 kilometers.
COMAC said the jet has extended, shortened, cargo and business versions in the pipeline. In addition, this new-generation jet will have flexible cabin designs to meet the needs and preferences of different airlines.
According to local web portal Jiemian News, the jet has completed its tests on system, equipment and apparatus installments. Further tests such as flight control, which means controlling an aircraft's direction in flight, to make sure it fly stably, will be taken after its maiden flight.
The first flight of C919 has been rescheduled from 2014 to 2016.
COMAC explained that the standards needed to acquire the International Airworthiness Certificate, which C919 desired to enter intentional markets, translated into a large amount of independent research and development by Chinese technicians, which slowed down the whole process.
The jet also features low fuel consumption. It will use 13 to 15 percent less oil compared with its current competitors.
Before C919, China had proved it has aviation manufacturing acumen, despite failing to exploit products to their full commercial potential.
The country developed its first large passenger aircraft, the Y-10, a four-engine narrow-body jet airliner in the 1970s.
The plane, which seated 149 people in economy, had a successful test flight on September 26, 1980, and visited a number of Chinese cities, including the plateau city of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Unfortunately, the project was canceled in 1985 due to viability and budgetary reasons. At that time, China had already opened up, and had a modest fleet of Western-produced aircraft.
China resumed the pursuit of its aircraft dream in 2008 when COMAC produced the ARJ21-700 regional jet, China's first airliner independently designed in accordance with international standards. The 5-seat per row jet was awarded airworthiness certificates from both the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency.
The ARJ21-700 underwent six years of grueling tests before the civil aviation authority awarded its accreditation in 2014.
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