Comac C919

By Guy Norris
Aviation Week's Guy Norris takes us on a guided tour inside the Comac C919, which is making its international air show debut here in Singapore.
Singapore Airshow

By Christine Boynton
While Riyadh Air is planning an initial narrowbody order with Boeing or Airbus, COO Peter Bellew says Comac will become "a real force to be reckoned with.”
Singapore Airshow

By Jens Flottau
As the C919 makes its international debut at Singapore Airshow, Airbus Commercial CEO Christian Scherer says Comac could be a competitor in future.
Singapore Airshow

By Chen Chuanren
Tibet Airlines is set to be the launch customer of Comac's C919 plateau variant ARJ21 plateau variant.
Singapore Airshow

By Chen Chuanren
Comac’s C919 and ARJ21 landed in Singapore on a gloomy Thursday afternoon for the 2024 edition of Singapore Airshow.
Singapore Airshow

By Adrian Schofield
Airlines including Cebu Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, Thai Airways and Cathay Pacific are planning to place major orders.
Singapore Airshow

By Chen Chuanren
Air China says it will be raising funds and some of the proceeds will go toward buying 17 domestically developed Comac C919 and ARJ21 airliners.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
The C919 is an important aircraft for China; with it, Comac could become a single aisle replacement for Boeing in the Chinese markets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The plan to develop a Chinese-made airliner for high-altitude plateau flight comes just weeks after plans for a hot & high variant of the C919 was revealed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
A Comac C919 is participating in a five-day exhibition flight to Hong Kong, marking the airliner’s first time flying outside of mainland China.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Chen Chuanren
China’s Comac has unveiled concepts for stretched and shortened variants of its C919 narrowbody aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
All good things come to an end, including the Western aerospace and defense sector’s high hopes for China. Exclusive survey results show a pivot.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
China Eastern announced the C919 order almost a year to the day since the Comac narrowbody received its type certification.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
China’s decades as aviation’s fastest growth country is over for now, and it will take years for aircraft deliveries to return to previous levels.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Gallop Air Chairman Yang Qiang has signed a letter of intent with Comac to buy 15 ARJ21s and 15 C919s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
China Eastern has taken delivery of its second Comac C919, with data showing its first narrow-body airliner has clocked an average of 5.5 flying hours daily.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The move provides full clarity on the destination airlines for Hainan Airlines’ commitment for 60 C919s made in April 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By James Pozzi
How China’s complicated relationship with the West could result in a permanent shift away from single-source supply chains.
Supply Chain

By Matthew Fulco
The export restrictions placed by China on gallium and germanium are unlikely to cause additional defense supply bottlenecks.
Supply Chain

By Matthew Fulco
The interdependence of China’s aviation sector with global suppliers means that they are likely stuck with each other, for better or worse.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
The U.S. and its G7 allies could use sanctions to hobble China’s foreign-part-dependent aerospace sector in a Taiwan Strait conflict, a new report says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The flight from Shanghai to Beijing marks completion of research, development, manufacturing, and commissioning of the Comac narrowbody.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
China’s ministry of industry and information technology has given China Mobile the green light to conduct tests of 5G air to ground (5G ATG).
Interiors & Connectivity

By Chen Chuanren
Hainan Airline Group has signed a framework agreement on behalf of subsidiary Urumqi Air with Comac for the Xinjiang-based carrier to add C919s.
Airlines & Lessors