C919 to make its first public appearance at China air show
The new narrowbody jet, the C919, will be present at China’s largest air show, which kicks off Tuesday in the southern city of Zhuhai, according to a schedule posted by the organisers.
The C919, made by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC), is designed to rival single-aisle jets made by Airbus and Boeing has never been displayed or publicly flown.
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China will show off its home-grown civil and military aviation technology at the air show, where 740 businesses are expected to take part both online and offline.
The C919’s presence was confirmed on the schedule on the organiser’s official WeChat social media account. It will make a 15-minute flying show for each of the six days of the airshow.
At the end of September, COMAC held a certification ceremony for the C919, which can now be delivered to its first customer, China Eastern Airlines, although it now needs a separate production certificate before it can ramp up mass production.
Also scheduled to appear are China’s domestically developed AG600, the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, as well as the Y20 military transport aircraft.
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