China-made large aircraft C919 third airliner to fly in Shanghai this year
March 07, 2018 00:43 China News Network
China-made large aircraft C919 the third passenger plane will fly in Shanghai this year
China News agency, Beijing, March 6 (reporter Zheng) representatives of the National People's Congress, Chinese commercial Aircraft Limited liability company deputy General Manager, C919 large passenger aircraft chief designer Glorious 6th in the 13 session of the National People's Congress Shanghai delegation plenary meeting revealed that,
C919 's third passenger plane is expected to debut at the fifth runway of Shanghai's Pudong airport by the end of this year.
Data map: C919. Yinliqin, Journalist of China New Society
C919 Jumbo aircraft is China's first fully based on the international advanced Airworthiness standards and the mainstream market standards independent research and development of a single-channel trunk plane. May 5, 2017, C919 first passenger plane flew successfully in Shanghai. The same year December 17, C919 second passenger plane in Shanghai "soaring".
Wu Guanghui introduced that, so far, the two planes have flown in total 23 sorties.
"I haven't been flying in a while, and a lot of people have asked me if it was an accident, but we're quite normal," Wu Guanghui said.
He also revealed that next year there are three aircraft to be the maiden flight, the entire airworthiness forensics test total of 6 aircraft involved.
On the airworthiness review, Wu Guanghui said C919 will conduct joint audits through CAAC and the European Airworthiness authority to ensure that the aircraft achieves the best and safest status. It is reported that the China Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) in 2010 accepted the C919 Model certificate application. 2016, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) accepted the C919 model certificate application.
Wu Guanghui said that China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. is fully committed to speeding up the development of C919, the current C919 international and domestic users up to 28, 815 orders, "We C919 is a market-popular aircraft." ”
In addition,
China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. also plans to deliver 15 ARJ21 new regional aircraft this year, in addition, the Sino-Russian Joint long-range wide-body passenger aircraft CR929 is also under development. Finish)