The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has won 50 orders for the 150-seat C919 at the Zhuhai Air Show. The orders comprise 20 from Hebei Airlines, 20 from Joy Air and10 from GECAS
In addition, COMAC also signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with US-based defunct Eastern Air Lines for future sales of the aircraft to the US. Reuters is reporting “sporadic reports of efforts to relaunch the airline, whose forked logo was seen on display as a backdrop to Tuesday’s signing ceremony.”
Comac will miss a target to fly its C919 158-seat narrowbody airliner in 2014, industry sources familiar with the Chinese program tell Aviation Week.
The first flight now is scheduled for the second quarter of 2015, says one industry source with detailed knowledge of the program.
...., the task of properly certificating a secondary component supplier under FAA guidelines is unknown to Comac, and it has dozens of Chinese suppliers to audit. It just cannot be done in a timely manner, or at least by the new target date of 2015 for the maiden flight.
Chances are rising that the Comac C919 will be largely limited to the Chinese market, as the manufacturer works toward local airworthiness certification while seeing no sure path to the desired FAA endorsement of the type.
Final assembly work on the Comac C919 has kicked into high gear, with assembly of the first prototype airframe almost complete.
The maiden flight of China's only homegrown commercial jet, the Comac C919, is behind schedule and delivery could be pushed back as much as two years, sources familiar with the program said, dealing a blow to its push to challenge Airbus and Boeing.
Comac will not meet its stated target of flying the first flight-test aircraft of its C919 program this year, industry sources say, as the company concedes that a 2017 first flight is possible.
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