China’s Indigenous Passenger Jet Stuck in US Regulatory Travails
Jan. 24, 2019
Will the West’s regulatory and certification hurdles eventually ground Beijing’s sky-high ambition to fly and market its homemade passenger airliner C919 overseas?
Beijing’s efforts to launch the C919, a narrow-bodied, medium-haul twin-jet airliner, to poach business off Boeing’s 737s and Airbus’ 320s, are gaining speed with successful test flights of a third C919 prototype at the end of 2018.
The first and second C919s made their maiden flights in May and December 2017 respectively. They are currently undergoing a series of tests at various airports across China, and three more prototypes will soar into the sky this year.
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