Xi'an MA60

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Xi'an MA60 / MA600
A Xi'an MA60
Type: Airliner
Design country:

China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China

Manufacturer:

Xi'an Aircraft

First flight:

March 12, 2000

Production time:

since 2000

Number of pieces:

  • 052 (mid 2008)
  • 101 (2016)
  • 116 (end of 2017)
  • 100 pieces delivered in May 2018, 57 of them abroad

The Xian MA60 (新舟60 Xinzhou 60 , which stands for English "Modern Ark" German "Modern Ark") is a turboprop airliner of the Chinese manufacturer Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation for 50 to 60 passengers. The MA60 is a stretched version of the Xi'an Y7-200A .

history

The Xi'an Y7-200A and thus also the MA60 is a further development of the Soviet Antonov An-26 transport aircraft , which had been manufactured under license since 1983. The aircraft, which is designed for regional and feeder services, is designed as a shoulder-decker and is powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127J turboprop engines (PW127G in the cargo version), which deliver their power to four-blade propellers from Hamilton Sundstrand .

The first flight took place on March 12, 2000, delivery began in August 2000. The entire sale in China is handled by a leasing company, which initially ordered 60 aircraft. The first customer was Sichuan Airways , which ordered 5 aircraft and granted an option for another 5. Unit price in 2002 was approximately $ 11 million. In 2004, Air Zimbabwe was the first foreign customer to be won. By mid-2008, 52 machines had been produced. It is possible that only two aircraft were in service in China in 2009. 11 machines were shut down due to problems at that time. However, aircraft of this type were also distributed as a gift from the Chinese government and follow-up orders or political concessions were hoped for.

In December 2015, the management of Camair-co in Cameroon, whose company had staff for training in China, said that the aircraft had 38 different operators worldwide. A little later, the Wall Street Journal reported that officially 57 aircraft had been exported. According to the journal's research, however, 26 of them are not in use and another six are irreparably damaged. The state defense and aircraft company AVIC , which is responsible for Chinese exports , wrote in a press release that the delivery of two aircraft to Cameroon (on April 7, 2015) was "the first delivery of two aircraft to a customer outside of China in years" .

29 June 2008 had an improved version of the MA60, the MA600, their rollout . It has a new cabin design, new avionics and ETOPS capability. Five aircraft had been built by 2014, presumably including a MA600F freighter. The successor to the MA600 was announced in 2007 with the development of the 70-seat MA700 , whose cockpit area and fuselage construction were taken over from the MA-600. In 2009 the first flight was assumed to be in 2013 or 2014, according to information from 2019 the first flight should take place in 2019. From 2015 to February 2019 there was an unchanged number of 185 orders.

Users

The users of all MA60 are listed.

country airline
AfghanistanAfghanistan Afghanistan East Horizon Airlines
BurundiBurundi Burundi Air Burundi received an aircraft in 2012 that had not received a certificate of airworthiness as of January 2017.
BoliviaBolivia Bolivia Armed Forces of Bolivia The two aircraft (FAB96, FAB97) have been stored in the meantime and FAB96 was put back into operation in 2016.
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
DjiboutiDjibouti Djibouti Armed Forces Djibouti 1 aircraft since 2014
EritreaEritrea Eritrea Massawa Airways
IndonesiaIndonesia Indonesia Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Congo RepublicRepublic of the Congo Republic of the Congo 2 machines, operator is a state company, first delivered in 2006
CambodiaCambodia Cambodia Royal Armed Forces of Cambodia and Cambodia Bayon Airlines
CameroonCameroon Cameroon Section Liaison Air Yaoundé (state-owned, according to sources also flew for L 'Armée de l'Air du Cameroun ) and Camair-Co : In 2016, the state-owned airline put the two TJ-QDA and TJ-QDB produced in 2013 into operation. Another aircraft received as a gift flew for the Air Force since 2014. The Minister of Transport of Cameroon called himself “living proof” of the safety of the aircraft, as the purchase was criticized on various occasions.
LaosLaos Laos
MyanmarMyanmar Myanmar Myanmar National Airlines
NepalNepal Nepal Nepal Airlines 1 free aircraft in service from April 2014, according to the 2012 agreement, two aircraft were planned, but 1 aircraft was not yet in service in 2016.
PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines Zest Airways in the 2000s
ZambiaZambia Zambia Zambian Defense Force 2 aircraft
ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe
Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Armed Forces , two delivered in 2011 and two aircraft deployed in 2016.
TajikistanTajikistan Tajikistan Tajik Air , closed in 2019
TongaTonga Tonga Real Tonga Airlines , a government donated aircraft, first commercial flight on August 10, 2013. Flights suspended on February 8, 2015 and replaced by ATR-72 after New Zealand government issued a warning against flights. At the beginning of September 2016 a definitive grounding had been reported, from September 2016 the aircraft appeared to have flown, still without international certification (only with an Air Operator Certificate from August 2016 in Tonga).

Incidents

There were several incidents with this aircraft due to problems with the landing gear.In February 2014, at the request of the manufacturer, all aircraft in China were banned from taking off. In two cases, the rear connections between wing and fuselage failed during hard landings, so that the broken fuselage came to rest on the runway.

  • On January 11, 2009, a Zest Airways MA60 had an accident while landing at Caticlan Airport ( Philippines ). Three people on board and three on the ground were injured; the machine had to be written off. During the second attempt at approach, the aircraft touched down shortly before the runway, which was only 840 meters long, the left main landing gear collapsed and collided with the concrete wall of the apron.
  • On June 25, 2009, another Zest Airways MA60 crashed at Caticlan Airport. None of the 55 occupants were injured in the accident. Inadequacies at the airport were named as the cause of the accident. Since the machine landed with a tailwind and had to fly over a hill in front of the runway, it touched down too late on the runway and rolled over the end of the runway. The airport was then subjected to an overhaul, the hill in the approach direction was removed and the runway was extended by 100 meters. Zest Airways has not served the airport since this accident.
  • On May 7, 2011, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Xi'an MA60 crashed into the sea 800 m from Kaimana Airport in Western New Guinea while taking off . All 19 passengers and 6 crew members on board were killed.
  • On June 10, 2013, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Xi'an MA60 had an extremely hard landing at Kupang Airport in the west of the island of Timor. Five people were seriously injured.
  • Also on June 10, 2013, a Myanmar Airways plane had an accident at Kawthaung Airport in Myanmar when it went off the runway due to a hydraulic failure. All 64 people on board were uninjured.
  • On February 4, 2014, the nose landing gear of a Joy Air MA60 failed on landing in Zhengzhou . There were no casualties among the 44 occupants, and the machine was later repaired and put back into service.
  • On May 10, 2015, a Joy Air MA60 built in 2011 had an accident at Fuzhou Airport in the People's Republic of China when it was leaving the runway. The wings folded forward so that the engines hit the ground. Three passengers suffered minor injuries. This was the fourteenth accident involving an MA60 and at the same time the fifth total loss.

Technical specifications

Parameter Data
crew 2
Passengers 60
length 24.31 m
span 29.20 m
height 8.89 m
Elongation 11.4
Wing area 75 m²
Empty mass 14,030 kg
Takeoff mass 21,800 kg
Top speed 514 km / h
Service ceiling 7622 m
Range 1430 km
Engines two propeller turbines Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127J with 2148 kW each

Comparable types

See also

Web links

Commons : Xi'an MA60  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cameroon: Air Transport - Ma60 Planes Finally Take to the Sky , allafrica.com, January 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Ch-aviation - Aircraft Data: Xian Yunshuji MA-60 / MA600 (English), accessed on December 12, 2017
  3. ↑ Deliveries of China's MA60 / 600 turboprop aircraft exceed 100 , xinhuanet.com, May 19, 2018
  4. ^ Roger Cliff, Chad JR Ohlandt, David Yang: Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry Rand Corporation , 2011 - ISBN 978-0-8330-5206-3 , Chapter 3
  5. ↑ a b Rejected at Home, Chinese Planes Crash Abroad , Epoch Times , October 3, 2013
  6. ↑ a b China grounds all MA60
  7. ↑ Cameroun - Camair-Co: Les avions MA 60 entrent en service , 237online.com, December 15, 2015
  8. ↑ a b c A Tarnished Turboprop Clouds China's Aviation Dream , WSJ, March 20, 2016
  9. ^ A b AVIC INTERNATIONAL Delivers Two New MA-60 Aircrafts to Cameroon ( Memento from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), AVIC press release
  10. ↑ MA-600 on airwar.ru
  11. ↑ The first Xian MA600F , cargofacts.com, January 15, 2017
  12. ^ MA700 work gets under way in Xi'an , ainonline, September 30, 2009
  13. ↑ China's Flying Ark in the air as of 2019 , accessed June 1, 2018
  14. ↑ China's MA700 regional aircraft is scheduled to make its maiden flight in 2019 , german china, February 11, 2019
  15. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to ch-aviation Xian Aircraft Company (English) accessed on September 25, 2015
  16. ↑ Burundi certifies MA-60, to enter commercial service?
  17. ↑ Bolivia type-certifies Xian Aircraft's MA-60 for operations , ch-aviation, August 26, 2014
  18. ^ Transporte Aéreo Militar de Bolivia será convertido en empresa pública , infodefensa.com, March 17, 2016
  19. ↑ AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Delivers 23rd MA60 Aircraft to Joy Air ( Memento from December 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), April 2017
  20. ↑ Xi'an MA-60H enters service with China Coast Guard , sinodefence.wordpress.com, June 24, 2017
  21. ↑ Djibouti Air Force gets two Y-12s; Dauphin helicopters , Defense Web, July 19, 2016
  22. ↑ a b China’s Xian Aircraft sells two passenger variant MA60 turboprops each to Laos and Congo-Brazzaville , flightglobal, July 21, 2006
  23. ↑ aerotransport.org - Cambodia Bayon Airlines (English), accessed on December 12, 2017
  24. ↑ CAMAIRCO'S MA60 FLIGHTS ALREADY ON SERVICE , timesnews2.com, January 24, 2015
  25. ↑ Gov't Defies Warnings SDF, Chinese Purchases 'Flying Coffins' cameroonpostline.com, April 10, 2015
  26. ↑ Chinese aircraft company completes biggest periodic maintenance of MA60 in Nepal , China News Service (CNS), July 5, 2016
  27. ^ Zambian Air Force interested in additional Chinese aircraft , Defense Web, November 8, 2016
  28. ↑ Air Zimbabwe is not missing any planes, says airline's spokesman . zimlive.com, July 1, 2019
  29. ↑ MA60s Provide UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with VIP service , September 9, 2016 AVIC -Press release | -
  30. ↑ MA60 aircraft starts commercial flights to Vava'u , Matangi - Tonga online, August 12, 2013
  31. ↑ MA60 flights suspended , Matangi - Tonga online, September 1, 2016
  32. ↑ MA60 remains grounded , Matangi - Tonga online, September 1, 2016
  33. ↑ Tonga govt issues air operator certificate for grounded MA60 , Matangi - Tonga online, August 9, 2016
  34. ^ NZ Foreign Minister reinforces concerns over MA60 aircraft certification , Matangi - Tonga online, August 10, 2016
  35. ^ MA60 resumes operations despite failed negotiation with government over funding ( Memento of September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), New Zealand Kaniva Pacific, September 21, 2016
  36. ↑ Real Tonga formally abandons MA-60 ops. ch-aviation , June 19, 2019.
  37. ↑ Chinese-made turboprop model has 2 bad landings in same day , USAtoday, June 11, 2013
  38. ↑ 7 passengers injured as plane veers off runway at Fuzhou , china.org, May 11, 2015
  39. ↑ Aircraft Accident data and report the Zest Airways flight 865 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  40. ↑ Aircraft Accident data and report the Zest Airways flight 863 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  41. ↑ Aircraft Accident data and report the Merpati Nusantara Airlines flight 8968 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  42. ↑ Flight accident data and report for Merpati Nusantara Airlines flight 6517 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  43. ^ Accident report XY-AIP, Aviation Safety Network (English) , accessed on October 24, 2015
  44. ↑ Flight accident data and report of Joy Air flight 1533 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  45. ↑ Flight accident data and report of Joy Air flight 1529 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
List of aircraft types made by Xi'an Aircraft


Civil series:

MA60 • MA700

Military series:

H-6 • JH-7 • Y-7 • Y-20