Chinese Aviation Industry

The "2022 Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Report" released by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission on the 10th stated that by the end of 2022, .

In 2022, the CR929 passenger aircraft will complete the first round of requirements verification, and the verification rate of the first batch of aircraft-level and system-level requirements will reach 98%, and the development of composite fuselage will continue.

Nilou said:

In the end the advocates for a solo Chinese Project seem to be right again. Just imagine if Russia did not drag their feet to try to extract more concessions out of China. Russia really is their own worst enemy at times.

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To be fair, "we need western equipment to obtain western flight certificates" is a strange reason given that the ARJ21 is a solo Chinese project and it never received FAA or EASA certification.

I agree. But the thing with CR929 is that since it is a longer range aircraft they will have to fly it to international locations unlike with the ARJ-21 which mostly flies inside China.

Chengdu AVIC does a reverse IPO going public today. We could expect more information coming from their mandatory financial report.

After 3 years and 10 months of grounding, Boeing 737-MAX is once again permitted to resume commercial passenger services in China today, with China Southern Airlines Flight CZ3960 from Guangzhou to Zhengzhou being the first 737-MAX flight.


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ACuriousPLAFan said:

After 3 years and 10 months of grounding, Boeing 737-MAX is once again permitted to resume commercial passenger services in China today, with China Southern Airlines Flight CZ3960 from Guangzhou to Zhengzhou being the first 737-MAX flight.

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Could this be a signal that chinese airlines will order boeing planes again, or is this just the backlog of already made old orders and that no new orders will be made in the future? Acording to this chinadaily article, no orders have been made by chinese airlines to boeing in recent years.

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Orthan said:

Could this be a signal that chinese airlines will order boeing planes again, or is this just the backlog of already made old orders and that no new orders will be made in the future? Acording to this chinadaily article, no orders have been made by chinese airlines to boeing in recent years.

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There will be orders for Boeing 777 and/or 787 as well as Airbus A350 long distance widebody jets due to (1) COMAC C929 is still at development stage, and (2) China's huge airlines market requirement of such passenger jets for long distance international routes.

The orders for narrow body jets like A320 will be continued while a much reduced numbers of Boeing 737 would be ordered. This is because China's airliners market for narrow body jets is simply too large for COMAC's production capability to meet the demand, especially in the next 10 years.

We will see Airbus and COMAC take up large portion of China's market share, and much smaller portion for Boeing. However, if there is a suddent turn around of China-US political relationship, Boeing's China market sales may increase significantly, though this is unlikely in near future.

Granted I've reverted to snooping status, I've said it a couple times in the past - China is particularly invested in Airbus's success in the Mainland not just because of geopolitical reasons, but also because Airbus has an assembly plant in Tianjin. Majority, if not all, of the A320s and some widebody A330/350s will be delivered in the Tianjin facility, and thus contributes to the the domestic economy.

AG600M successfully made its first flight after being transferred to the AVIC Test Flight Center at Yanliang. AG600M has now entered the airworthiness certification stage.

【AG600M转场阎良首飞成功】 1月14日，首架AG600M飞机转场航空工业试飞中心后首飞成功，标志着AG600M全面进入研发试飞和适航取证试飞阶段。B-0DCC架机是试飞中心接收的AG600M首架试验机，1月6日从珠海转场阎良。这次飞行正式拉开AG600M在试飞中心取证试飞的帷幕，后续将按照试飞计划开展飞行性能、操稳、飞控、动力装置和航电系统等多个专业科研飞行试验...

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Another great news for COMAC is the massive losses of expertise at my current company. Nearly 2/3 of all the offices at BCA's design and development center is now empty !! Entire HR department, finance department gone forever !!