AIRCRAFT PROGRAM

Narrow-body commercial airliner.

The airframe, made entirely in China, is primarily constructed of aluminium alloy (fuselage and wing boxes) with 8.8% of structure from aluminium-lithium alloys and less than 10% of composite materials (tailbone, tailplane and fin). Supercritical design wings are low, swept back with upturned tips. Chinese-Western joint ventures provide the majority of aircraft systems.

Launched with twin LEAP-XIC turbofan engines, the indigenous ACAE CJ-1000AX engine is in development and offered as alternative from 2021.

Two pilots face two display screens with a third below the window, a side-control stick control and Honeywell fly-by-wire system.

Type variants

Variant	Launch/First flight	Production end
COMAC C919	2007 / 2017		Twin-jet airliner, includes: C919-200 baseline 158 passenger variant; C919-100 shortened 130 passenger variant; and C919-300 stretched 190 passenger variant.

Recent news

• 26/09/2024:  NEWS:  AVIC expands C919 supply chain role for Incora
• 19/09/2024:  Press Release:  C919 flew to Lhasa for the first time, domestic commercial aircraft gathered on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

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See recent updates (latest 26/09/2024)