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COMAC C909

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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.

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Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Turbofan

Application

Business, Cargo, Passenger medium

Final assembly

Shanghai (Pudong) ·

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Aluminium

Wing

Aluminium

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

Bleed air

Pressurisation

Pressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Full FBW digital

Autopilot

3-axis + autoland

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Environmental control

Engine-bleed air-cycle

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Low

Planform

Swept

Tail

T-tail

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Certification

Part 25

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Winglets / sharklets Standard

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
COMAC C909	2000 / 2008		Production: 26 (2025) Twenty-six C909s delivered in 2025 per one industry analysis report, alongside 15 C919s for a combined COMAC total of 41. Supply-chain disruption from a US export-licence suspension on CF34-10A engines (May 2025, lifted July 2025) constrained output. [medium]. 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.

Airframer

COMAC Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.

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