LEAP engine is in contract with German company MTU Aero Engines for this task. they have the largest facility of maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) in whole of Asia in Zhuhai, China..
COMAC C919
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China is actually in a better place with aircraft than it was with semicon when that tech war began.
And we know how that is going.
In aircraft, China has experience in the C909 and C919. It has engine programs in place.
This is not including the decades of experience in military jets and military jet engines.
COMAC can and will deliver an indigenous C919 but unlike the semicon industry there is no question of Chinese aviation facing "annihilation" when cut off from foreign inputs.
China has the industrial base and the customer base to support a commercial aircraft industry whenever products are available.
right, MRO is not the issue here. It's the supply of new engines.
Based on what Shilao podcast said before, they almost always get their batch of deliveries for the full year pretty early on for Leap-1C, so I don't think deliveries this year is a problem. The question is next year. Let's see if they come to a deal soon, but if not, they will have a period of delays.
Nope. First off almost all the “foreign suppliers” are locally produced JVs. If the JVs are invalidated the ownership will simply be spun off while the production facilities continue operations.
Second, once the plane is certified parts from new suppliers only need to match the spec of the pre-certified parts to maintain certification. This is not nearly as time consuming as initial certification.
The “challenge” is not with safety engineering, but with certification.
Why bother? There are like 19 C919 with those engines.
COMAC must be really glad they dissed the WS-20 engine for this Western set of shiny glass beads.
It may have been discussed, but I expect COMAC to would have some LEAP-1C engines in it's inventory for the situations like this. Knowing the importance of supply chain, it would be stupid not to have some contingency built into their procurement plan.
The US administration under Trump first threatened to cut off Leap-1C engine delivery to COMAC back in 2020.
Do you think US will allow CFM to deliver or assemble enough engines for COMAC to maintain a stockpile that can last a year? I doubt so.
IMO the reason why Trump did not impose his restriction then is like what is happening today, US has absolute control.
So I won't be surprised if COMAC suddenly released it's CJ1000 powered C919 this year. The certification and testing may have already been done in secrecy.
Do you think US will allow CFM to deliver or assemble enough engines for COMAC to maintain a stockpile that can last a year? I doubt so.
IMO the reason why Trump did not impose his restriction then is like what is happening today, US has absolute control.
So I won't be surprised if COMAC suddenly released it's CJ1000 powered C919 this year. The certification and testing may have already been done in secrecy.
We have been speculating for sometime that the Americans might cut off the engine supply for the C-919 and now it has happened. How many of those engines does COMAC have stockpiled and what about other components on the plane that comes from America.
as of now, apart from Engines there is no issue with any component of C919.. and as per the source COMAC stockpiled enough LEAP engines for at least one more year.
This picture of CJ1000A was taken around the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023, it was being tested on a Y-20. Based on some media, CJ1000A will be tested on C919 soon.
