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Short-medium range regional aircraft, the first domestically manufactured Chinese passenger airliner.

Features a new supercritical wing design with a 25 degree sweepback and winglets, T-tail, tricycle retractable landing gears, Pro Line 21 avionics and twin GE CF34 engines pod mounted mounted on rear fuselage.

Seats 90 (-700) to 115 (-900) passengers seated in rows of 5 with 2 flight crew and 2 cabin attendants.

Type variants

Variant	Launch/First flight	Production end
COMAC C909	2000 / 2008		Formerly known as ARJ21. Original baseline variant ARJ21-700 seats 78-90 passengers with standard and long-range versions. Includes a freighter version ARJ21-700F; corporate large business jet, CBJ or ARJ21-700B; medical emergency service version, ARJ21 MES; and stretched version for 115 passengers, ARJ21-900.

Recent news

• 20/05/2026:  Press Release:  AutoFlight V5000 Matrix concludes 'heterogeneous three-aircraft formation' flight, officially kicks off airworthiness certification

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Operations data

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