Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China
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| legal form | Centrally managed company |
| founding | May 11, 2008 |
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Shanghai , People's Republic of China
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| management | Zhuanglong Jin, Dongfeng He |
| Branch | aviation |
| Website | www.comac.cc |
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. ( COMAC or Comac , Chinese 中国 商用 飞机 有限 责任 公司 , Pinyin zhōngguó shāngyòng fēijī yǒuxiàn zérèn gōngsī ) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer .
history
The company was founded by the Chinese government, the regional government of Shanghai and the already existing consortia AVIC I + AVIC II on May 11, 2008 in Shanghai , People's Republic of China . State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council , Shanghai Guosheng (Group) Co., Ltd. are involved in the joint venture . , Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) , China Aluminum Corporation (CHINALCO) , Baosteel Group , and Sinochem Group .
On December 28, 2009, the groundbreaking ceremony for a production site to build the Comac C919 took place .
By the end of 2011, a total of 200 orders for the C919 were expected. The background to this announcement was the fact that the People's Republic of China had obliged its state-controlled airlines to order at least 20 Comac C919s each. This corresponds to a higher start-up investment than Airbus was awarded when it was founded.
On November 2, 2015, the first copy of the C919 with 158 seats and a range of 4075 km was presented in Shanghai. He faced three years of test flights before going into commercial use. 517 orders from 21 customers are said to have been received, but the air traffic experts mostly assess them as declarations of intent.
On May 5, 2017, the first flight of the Comac C919 , the first twin-engine passenger aircraft to be completely assembled in China, took place at Shanghai Pudong International Airport .
Products
The Comac C919 is a medium- haul aircraft for 168 to 190 passengers, which is to compete with the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737 . A Comac C919 prototype was presented as a model at the aviation fair in Zhuhai (Guangdong Province) in November 2010. 700 machines (as of 5th 2018) have been ordered. The first test flight took place on May 5, 2017. The first delivery is planned for 2018.
The ACAC consortium , which has now also been integrated, is building the ARJ21 regional jet, which has been available as the Comac ARJ21 since 2009 .
COMAC and the Russian aviation and armaments group OAK founded the new joint venture China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Company (CRAIC) in Shanghai on May 22, 2017 to build a long-haul C929 aircraft with 280 seats and a range of 12,000 kilometers by 2028, a project , for which a letter of intent was signed between the two countries in 2014.
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "China's jumbo passenger aircraft company established in Shanghai" ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Xinhua , May 11, 2008.
- ↑ "Chinese plane business gets wings" , BBC , May 11 of 2008.
- ↑ About us
- ↑ de.reuters.com: China plans to take passenger aircraft into the air in 2014 , accessed on December 30, 2009.
- ↑ Handelsblatt : "German nozzles to China", author: Markus Fasse, issue 217, November 9, 2011, p. 21.
- ↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2307279/ China developed passenger jet itself for the first time, orf.at November 2, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015.
- ↑ Comac C919 - China jet takes off on maiden flight. In: Spiegel Online. May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ New details emerge on proposed China-Russia widebody , accessed June 1, 2018
- ↑ Tom Phillips, C-919: China's first homemade jetliner makes maiden flight , in: The Guardian , May 5, 2017, accessed July 26, 2018
- ↑ C919 Inches Toward Flight-Testing, ARJ21 Toward Upgrade , Aviationweek, November 3, 2014
- ↑ China and Russia force Airbus competing project. In: Reuters. May 22, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Suppliers wanted for wide-body passenger airplane , China Daily, November 8, 2014
