China starts mass production of domestically developed regional jet.Byline: ANI New Delhi, Feb 14 (ANI): China's state-owned Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing has said that it has signed contracts with four other factories, marking the start of mass production of the country's first domestically developed regional jet, the ARJ21-700. The four companies are the Avici Commercial Aircraft Co Ltd (ACAC ACAC Acetylacetone ACAC Association of College Admissions Counselors ACAC Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative ACAC Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (Canada) ACAC Air-Cooled Air Cooler (aviation) ) and aircraft component factories in Chengdu, Xi'an and Shenyang. The ACAC will produce the main bodies, while the other three will make wings and other parts, Xinhua reported. According to Luo Ronghuai, deputy general manager of ACAC, there have been 208 orders for ARJ21 jets from foreign and domestic customers, including an order for 25 from US-based GE Commercial Aviation Services GECAS (GE Commercial Aviation Services, formerly GE Capital Aviation Services, though the acronym is the more common usage) is a unit of GE Commercial Finance, itself part of the large conglomerate General Electric. The president of GECAS is Henry Hubschman. . The first five planes will be delivered next year, with 10 to be delivered in 2011 and 15 in 2012. Luo said this year would be "the year of trial flights" as four planes would make trial flights. The first ARJ21-700 made a trial flight in Shanghai on November 28. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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