China Civil Aviation, AVIC (MA600) & COMAC (ARJ21/C919/C929)

[Deino]

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Via @中国航空研究院 from Weixin

FC-31 V1 (31001)??

 

[Daniel808]

Deliveries of ARJ-21 to customers:-

2015 1 aircraft
2016 1 aircraft
2017 2 aircraft
2018 6 aircraft
2019 11 aircraft
2020 (11 months) 19 aircraft

Total deliveries to-date 40 aircraft.
Total orders received 208 aircraft.
Total passengers carried >1.3 million.

Updated.


Deliveries of ARJ-21 to customers:-

2015 1 aircraft
2016 1 aircraft
2017 2 aircraft
2018 6 aircraft
2019 11 aircraft
2020 (11 months) 20 aircraft

Total deliveries to-date 41 aircraft.
Total orders received 208 aircraft.
Total passengers carried >1.3 million.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1334746369869824005

 

[LKJ86]

C919

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[Han Patriot]

Deliveries of ARJ-21 to customers:-

2015 1 aircraft
2016 1 aircraft
2017 2 aircraft
2018 6 aircraft
2019 11 aircraft
2020 (11 months) 19 aircraft

Total deliveries to-date 40 aircraft.
Total orders received 208 aircraft.
Total passengers carried >1.3 million.

Looks like mass production started

 

[samsara]

Deliveries of ARJ-21 to customers:-

2015 1 aircraft
2016 1 aircraft
2017 2 aircraft
2018 6 aircraft
2019 11 aircraft
2020 (11 months) 19 aircraft

Total deliveries to-date 40 aircraft.
Total orders received 208 aircraft.
Total passengers carried >1.3 million.

I wonder why you put so low the number for the order book of the ARJ21... at the end of August 2019, the ORDER BOOK for the aircraft already reached 596 units according to Richard Schuurman at the AirInsight Group.

"Today's ceremony happened at COMAC's Assembly Manufacturing Center at Shanghai Pudong, where three ARJ21s for the new customers were parked next to each other.
Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern all announced their orders for 35 each of the ARJ21-700 on AUGUST 30 LAST YEAR, at the time boosting the ORDER BOOK to 596 from 22 airlines. The order was seen as recognition of the ARJ21 but at the same time came as no surprise as the government always expected the majors to buy Chinese aircraft." ~ Richard Schuurman, Aerospace, June 28, 2020.

Comac ARJ21 hits milestone as first aircraft join Three Majors » AirInsight

Chinese airframer Comac hit an important milestone on June 28 when it simultaneously delivered three ARJ21 regional jets to the country’s biggest airlines: Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern Airlines. For the type, it means a breakthrough as until now it has been used mainly by Chengdu...

airinsight.com

Btw this website employs copy-and-paste protection for its contents, I had to retype the excerpt

 

[lcloo]

I wonder why you put so low the number for the order book of the ARJ21... at the end of August 2019, the ORDER BOOK for the aircraft already reached 596 units according to Richard Schuurman at the AirInsight Group.

"Today's ceremony happened at COMAC's Assembly Manufacturing Center at Shanghai Pudong, where three ARJ21s for the new customers were parked next to each other.
Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern all announced their orders for 35 each of the ARJ21-700 on AUGUST 30 LAST YEAR, at the time boosting the ORDER BOOK to 596 from 22 airlines. The order was seen as recognition of the ARJ21 but at the same time came as no surprise as the government always expected the majors to buy Chinese aircraft." ~ Richard Schuurman, Aerospace, June 28, 2020.

Comac ARJ21 hits milestone as first aircraft join Three Majors » AirInsight

Chinese airframer Comac hit an important milestone on June 28 when it simultaneously delivered three ARJ21 regional jets to the country’s biggest airlines: Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern Airlines. For the type, it means a breakthrough as until now it has been used mainly by Chengdu...

airinsight.com

Btw this website employs copy-and-paste protection for its contents, I had to retype the excerpt

Thanks for the correction. The figure that I got is vastly out-dated.

The latest updated figure is
1. 596 as at August 2019
2. New order from Huaxia airlines in Nov 2020 - 50 aircraft, and an option for another 50 ARJ-21 or C919 - from COMAC official website.
　"本月初，华夏航空与中国商飞正式签署100架飞机购机合同，其中50架为ARJ21系列飞机，另50架可为ARJ21系列飞机或C919系列飞机，由双方后续协商确定。本次签约和交付意味着ARJ21飞机经过4年多的市场化运营获得了更多客户的认可。 "

So the updated total is now 646 orders, inclusive of aircraft already delivered.

 

[JSCh]

Around 1,000 CR929 expected to be delivered between 2023-45: chief Chinese designer
2020-12-10 13:09:24 Global Times Editor : Li Yan

Delivery of CR929, first long-haul jetliner developed by China and Russia, moves forward steadily, with a total of 1,000 expected to be handed over between 2023 and 2045, chief Chinese designer Chen Yingchun said on Wednesday.

Chen revealed the new progress of CR929, C919 large passenger aircraft and regional jetliner, the ARJ21, at an aviation summit in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang Province.

Chen said that the ARJ21 has made success, with total number of orders exceeding 600 and delivering more than 1.5 million passengers via its 36 air routes. In addition, the accumulative orders of C919 has reached 815, with six planes are carrying out trial flights in four regions.

Jointly developed by China and Russia, the CR929 is 63.3-meter-long and 17.9-meter-high, with a wingspan of 61.2 meters. The weight of a CR929 is about six times of an ARJ21, or three C919 jetliners, Chen said, noting that the air-range of CR929 is as long as 12,000 kilometers, meeting Asia-Pacific and Europe flight needs departing from Beijing and Shanghai.

The CR929 is not simple large aircraft, Chen said. Traditional complex panels are replaced large LCD screens that not only reduce maintenance difficulty but ensures safety. The use of advanced composite materials exceeds 50 percent, with use of titanium alloy at 15 percent, he said.

According to market estimate, global demand for wide-body passenger aircraft surpasses 10,000 from 2023 to 2045, with demand in China and Russia at about 1840.

The initially planned delivery amount of CR929 was only 500, the double figure guarantees its bright market prospect, Chen said.

That would make CR929 account for 14.7 percent of wide-body aircraft delivered globally during the period, media reports said.

 

[vi-va]

I wonder why you put so low the number for the order book of the ARJ21... at the end of August 2019, the ORDER BOOK for the aircraft already reached 596 units according to Richard Schuurman at the AirInsight Group.

"Today's ceremony happened at COMAC's Assembly Manufacturing Center at Shanghai Pudong, where three ARJ21s for the new customers were parked next to each other.
Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern all announced their orders for 35 each of the ARJ21-700 on AUGUST 30 LAST YEAR, at the time boosting the ORDER BOOK to 596 from 22 airlines. The order was seen as recognition of the ARJ21 but at the same time came as no surprise as the government always expected the majors to buy Chinese aircraft." ~ Richard Schuurman, Aerospace, June 28, 2020.

Comac ARJ21 hits milestone as first aircraft join Three Majors » AirInsight

Chinese airframer Comac hit an important milestone on June 28 when it simultaneously delivered three ARJ21 regional jets to the country’s biggest airlines: Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern Airlines. For the type, it means a breakthrough as until now it has been used mainly by Chengdu...

airinsight.com

Btw this website employs copy-and-paste protection for its contents, I had to retype the excerpt

A trick to work around copy and paste protection. Use Evernote plugin. You can either copy and paste while clipping, or clip then find the article in your clipped notes.
I bet there are other plugin can do it as well, or you can just edit the html which prohibited the copy and paste function.

Comac ARJ21 hits milestone as first aircraft join Three Majors
by Richard Schuurman | Jun 28, 2020 | Aerospace | 0 comments


Chinese airframer Comac hit an important milestone on June 28 when it simultaneously delivered three ARJ21 regional jets to the country’s biggest airlines: Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern Airlines. For the type, it means a breakthrough as until now it has been used mainly by Chengdu Airlines and smaller regional airlines.

Today’s ceremony happened at Comac’s Assembly Manufacturing Center at Shanghai Pudong, where three ARJ21s for the new customers were parked next to each other.
Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern all announced their orders for 35 each of the ARJ21-700 on August 30 last year, at the time boosting the order book to 596 from 22 airlines. The order was seen as recognition of the ARJ21 but at the same time came as no surprise as the government always expected the majors to buy Chinese aircraft.

China Southern’s first ARJ21. (Comac)

Actually, China Eastern on February 26 founded a dedicated regional airline to operate its ARJ21s, and later on the 20 C919s it has on order: One Two Three (OTT) Airlines, the name related to the traditional Chinese culture of Lao-tzu. The first airport OTT will operate the type from is Shanghai’s Hongqiao.
All three airlines have opted for a 90-seat all-economy cabin with seats positioned in a 2 by 3-configuration.

China Eastern founded OTT Airlines to operate its China-made fleet. (Comac)

The history of the Comac ARJ21 confirms that developing a clean sheet airliner can be exhausting. The program was launched back in 2002. Commercial Aircraft Corporation (Comac) designed the ARJ21-700 as a 78-90 seater not dissimilar to the Boeing 717/McDonnell-Douglas MD80-series, but with a shorter fuselage, Antonov-designed wings and two General Electric CF-34s at the back. The aircraft has a 1.200-1.700nm/2.200-3.700km range. The -900, a longer version seating up to 105 passengers is still contemplated, as are a business jet and freighter version.

The first test aircraft rolled out of assembly in December 2007. First flight was on November 28, 2008, but it took another six years to complete certification and another 1,5 before the ARJ21 was ready to enter service. This happened on June 28, 2016 (coincidently the same date as today’s delivery ceremony) to Chengdu Airlines. Chengdu has 30 aircraft on order and currently operates 20. Since July 2019, Genghis Khan Airlines has five in operation out of 25 on order plus 25 options, while Jiangxi Airlines has two in service since May this year out of five on order. On June 10, all three airlines simultaneously took delivery of another ARJ. Including two aircraft registered with Comac Regional Aviation and Comac Business Jet, 27 ARJ21s had been delivered until June 28.
Production in Shanghai has resumed after it has been impacted by Covid-19 in the first quarter of the year.

Other customers include SPDB Financial Leasing (15 +15 in November 2018), HNA’s Urumqi Air (20 firm in November 2018). The only non-Chinese customers are lessor GECAS (5 ordered in 2008) and the Republic of Congo (4).



Chengdu Airlines is the first operator of the ARJ21. (Comac)



Not without reliability issues
Since its entry into service, the ARJ21 has flown some 900.000 passengers on domestic services with Vladivostok in Russia so far the only international service offered by Chengdu. As the first operator of a new type in a small fleet, Chengdu Airlines has had to endure numerous technical and reliability issues. Comac has improved on this by offering updates and executing additional testing, especially in rigorous cold-weather in Harbin (Northeast China).

Back in April 2018, Comac quoted Chengdu’s vice president Zhang Fang as saying dispatch reliability was 97.19 percent, which is well below the 99+ percent targeted as acceptable by Airbus and Boeing. In April 2019, Zhou Huangxing of Comac’s Operations Support Department said daily utilization during the previous winter season had been 6.3 hours. “The delay/cancellation rate per thousand flights due to mechanical reasons is not greater than that of a mature aircraft type in the same period .”

The ARJ21 has been described as the pathfinder for Chinese-made civil aircraft. It will bring valuable experience to Comac for the development of the C919, which has 305 firm orders. This twin-engine is in the Airbus A220/Embraer E2-series league and some months ago was referred to by IAG’s Willie Walsh as a potential aircraft. Comac is taking its time since the May 2017 first flight, with four aircraft currently active on the test program.
Then there is, of course, the development of the Chino-Russian CR929 widebody, but don’t expect any first flight to happen well into the second part of this decade.

In order to force a breakthrough in international sales, the ARJ21 will have to demonstrate to the Three Majors it is doing its job.

© 2020, Richard Schuurman. All rights reserved.

 

[LKJ86]

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[LKJ86]

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[LKJ86]

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[LKJ86]

MA700
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MA700
December 19, 2020

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[LKJ86]

ARJ21-700

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[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1341637043147948032

Yicai Global 第一财经@yicaichina
China state-affiliated media

Chinese-produced large passenger jet #C919 will start a test flight at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, its first test flight at a 4F class airport outside its main base, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, moving one step closer to get an airworthiness certification.


2:49 PM · Dec 23, 2020

 

[LKJ86]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1341637043147948032

Yicai Global 第一财经@yicaichina
China state-affiliated media

Chinese-produced large passenger jet #C919 will start a test flight at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, its first test flight at a 4F class airport outside its main base, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, moving one step closer to get an airworthiness certification.


2:49 PM · Dec 23, 2020

C919
December 21, 2020

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