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.
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See Analytics rates| Variant | Launch / first flight | Production end | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMAC C919 | 2007 / 2017 | Production: 15 (2025) COMAC missed successive targets of 75 then 25 deliveries for 2025, severely impacted by US export controls on CFM LEAP-1C engines. Air Data News and Fliegerfaust both report 16 aircraft delivered in calendar 2025, consistent with the programme cumula [medium]. Twin-jet airliner, includes: C919-200 baseline 158 passenger variant; C919-100 shortened 130 passenger variant; C919-300 stretched 190 passenger variant and C919-600 plateau operations variant. |
| COMAC Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. | News |
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