C919 flew to the Capital Airport for the first time, and the Air Permit was issued closer | News

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Text/Wang Xiaoyu

On the morning of September 13th, the two registered numbers of C919 with B-001F and B-001Js took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport for about half an hour. Both aircraft destinations were Beijing Capital International Airport (hereinafter referred to as "Capital Airport"). At 10:51 and 11:23 on the day, the two planes were successively landed. This is also the first time that C919 has landed at the Capital Airport. Earlier, in July this year, a C919 flew from Dongying Shengli Airport to Beijing Daxing International Airport, thus completing the first landing of this domestic commercial airliner in Beijing.

C919 is the first time that my country is designed, developed and manufactured in accordance with international civil aviation regulations, and has independent intellectual property rights. The layout is equipped with 158-168 seats, and the range is 4075-5555 kilometers, which is basically close to the current standard of mainstream single-channel trunk airliners.

Chinese COMAC announced in August that the C919 has completed the test flight work, and the fleet with six test fleets and a first delivery aircraft will be carried out frequently at multiple domestic airports since July. The test flight of the route is obviously to verify and accumulate experience in the routes and airport adaptability of different airports and airports after delivery operation.

According to a number of people close to COMAC to the reporter of the Huaxia Times, according to the current plan, on September 19th, this symbolic day, the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration will issue it to C919 as a flight certificate. It also means that the model will start delivering to operators. According to the current plan, the first machine before the end of the year will also be delivered to the first operator China Oriental Airlines Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Eastern Airlines"), and China Eastern Airlines may put the new machine into operation for the first time in 2023. In the first quarter of the year.

The C919 is an attempt to develop the research and development trunk commercial passenger aircraft again after the shipment is 10, and in 2008, it set up a commercial carrier for China Commercial Fly as the business carrier of the project. In early 2009, COMAC officially released the C919 project and began signing cooperation intention and procurement contracts with suppliers in the same year. In 2010, China Civil Aviation Administration accepted the application for C919 large passenger aircraft model qualification certificate. This is also under the current commercial aircraft manufacturing and operation system. One of the stages. Only after obtaining a model qualification certificate, a production license and a airworthiness certificate means that a commercial passenger aircraft has really entered the operating stage.

C919 completed the decoration offline in November 2015, and completed its first flight in May 2017. In May 2022, the first C919 to be delivered to China Eastern Airlines registered number B-001J completed its first flight in Shanghai.

Edit: Huang Xingli

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