C919 completes the test flight, when can we sit on it?

According to the WeChat public account of the Chinese COMAC, on August 1, the domestic large passenger aircraft C919 completed the testing of evidence for evidence.

As soon as the news came out, it was exciting. So, does the completion of evidence for testing means that we can meet with C919 soon? How far is domestic aircraft from commercial operations?

Data Map: China COSCO C919 Great Aircraft. Photo by Xu Bingnan

"A milestone node"

"Endoring test flight is a typical '" Flying and Ending "mode. Any links in them, the Civil Aviation Administration will let the China COMCO rectify." Completed the substantive work of evidence collection. "

"Completing the test flight of evidence is a milestone node. It means that the test model has completed all the prescribed actions of the test flight." ““ ““ 綦 綦 綦 ““ ““ ““ ““ ““ ““ ““ “ Financial, "The next is the tidel for testing data and documents, the summary and reporting of the materials. In the end, the review of experts in the field of airworthiness can be issued in order to issue a check certificate."

"(Domestic) large civil aviation passenger planes are the first time in my country, which is also equivalent to a teaching process." Qi Qi said that completing evidence for testing is a necessary condition for C919 large passenger planes to obtain flights. "Subsequently, some corresponding debugging may be performed, or some supplementary subjects will be performed. It depends on the status of the data."

On December 27, 2019, 106 planes (front) of the COMAC C919 large passenger aircraft took off from the fourth runway of Pudong Airport. Photo by China News Agency reporter Yin Liqin

Before business operations, you have to complete these tasks

"Obtaining a airworthiness certificate is the next important node." 綦 Qi said that after obtaining the airworthiness certificate, the Chinese COMAC will be delivered to the first startup user (airline) in accordance with the agreement, and then starts the user to incorporate the aircraft into it into it. The fleet sequence can arrange the corresponding flight.

"At present, the official business operation distance is not far from domestic large -scale passenger aircraft C919." Li Hanming said that on the one hand, the aircraft "driving license" is needed, that is, the airworthiness and registration certificate at the model level and the specific aircraft level; On the other hand, the corresponding pilot also needs to obtain the "driver's license" of the model, and the pilot needs to learn the operation of the model.

"In addition, as the carrier airline, it also needs to have the qualifications of repairing C919 and training C919 drivers. After these are completed, domestic large passenger aircraft C919 can officially operate business operations and meet passengers." Li Hanming added.

According to the official website of China Commercial Flying, at present, the domestic large passenger aircraft C919 already has a total of 815 orders of 28 customers. Among them, China Oriental Airlines, as the first domestic aircraft C919's first startup user, has officially signed 5 C919 purchase contracts with COMAC. In addition, Air China, China Southern Airlines, HNA, Sichuan Airlines, Happy Airlines, and Hebei Airlines also intend to order.

On May 5, 2017, C919, a large domestic passenger aircraft in China, will fly at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The picture shows C919 waiting for the first flight. Yang Jun Photo

C919 major event:

It takes nearly seven years from the total installation to complete the testing test flight.

It is reported that the C919 large passenger aircraft is a large jet civil aircraft developed by my country in accordance with international civil aviation regulations and has independent intellectual property rights. It has 158-168 seats and 4075-5555 kilometers.

The time returned to nearly seven years ago. On November 2, 2015, the first C919 machine was officially installed and offline at the Pudong base.

On December 25, 2016, the first C919 aircraft was delivered to the test flight center.

On May 5, 2017, the C919 large passenger aircraft first flight in Shanghai, and then transferred from Shanghai Yanliang on November 10 of the same year to officially conduct a follow -up test flight test.

On December 17, 2017, the second C919 aircraft completed its first flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

On March 24, 2018, 102 C919 aircraft (C919 second aircraft) successfully completed the fifth test flight, and on July 12, 2018, the Dongying Test flight base was transferred.

On October 24, 2019, the C919 large passenger aircraft (the fifth machine of the C919) completed the first test flight.

On February 23, 2020, the C919 large passenger aircraft 106 aircraft transfer to Dongying to test flight.

Since July 2022, the domestic large aircraft C919 has appeared in multiple airports across the country. On July 4th, C919 landed at Penglai International Airport at Yantai City; on July 5th, C919 completed the start and landing at Zhengzhou Airport in the rain for the first time; at 12:01 on July 7, the domestic large aircraft C919 landed at Tianhe Airport in Wuhan; July 8th; July 8 On the day, C919 conducted functions and reliability test flights at Guilin Airport and Beihai Airport; on July 12, C919 First Airlines Beijing Daxing International Airport.

On August 1, 2022, C919 completed the test flight.

Sichuan Observation (Source: China News Network)

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