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

• 14/12/2022:  NEWS:  First customer takes delivery of China's C919
• 10/11/2022:  NEWS:  COMAC C919 weather antenna gains FAA tick
• 05/10/2022:  NEWS:  China issues type certification for the COMAC C919
• 25/08/2022:  NEWS:  COMAC reports C919 flight testing is complete

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See recent updates (latest 07/01/2023)