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China to Trial Make First Independently-developed Regional Jet
[January 02, 2006]

China to Trial Make First Independently-developed Regional Jet


(SinoCast China Business Daily News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)BEIJING, January 03,. 2, SinoCast -- China has recently passed the examination of airworthiness to the aircraft structure and system drawings of its first regional passenger aircraft under its own property right, ARJ21, and then it will be brought to trial production, domestic media reported.



The development of ARJ21 is one of the significant tasks of most political and strategic meaning undertaken by China Aviation Industry Corporation I.

At the beginning of 2005, it had successfully completed the detailed structure and system design of ARJ21, which had been optimized from the end of last August, and in December, the aircraft's 100% structure drawing and 50% system drawing had been send for examination of airworthiness as scheduled.


And presently, since the examination has been passed, the aircraft's technical status has all been frozen and the related drawings are to be sent for trial production on the full scale.

The report said that the birth of ARJ21 will end the era of provision monopoly by Boeing and Airbus in China.

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