By November 2014, AC104 had completed 711 flights in 1,442 hours and 23 minutes. The cumulative flight time was 173 hours and 55 minutes. Route-proving started on October 29, 2014, and AC105 made 83 flights between ten airports in Chengdu, Guiyang, Guilin, Haikou, Fuzhou, Zhoushan, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Yinchuan and Xianyang. and AC104 completed an airspeed calibration flight on October 30. The first production aircraft flew on 18 June 2014.
Natural-icing tests are required for airworthiness certification, and conducting these tests outside China showed it was feasible to do certification tests for civil aircraft in other countries. At the same time, other flight-test aircraft covered more than 30,000 km across Asia, America, Europe, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This was the first time a turbofan-powered regional jet independently developed by China had flown abroad to carry out flight tests in special weather conditions. Key flight tests and CAAC certification ĪC104 returned to China on April 28, 2014, after completing natural-icing tests in North America. The ACAC consortium was reorganized in 2009 and became a part of COMAC. COMAC claims that it is an original design, part of which was created by supercomputers in China. The ARJ21 is a small jet aircraft that looks similar to the MD-80, which was licensed to be built in China. By August 2011, static, flutter and crosswind flight tests had been completed. The fourth aircraft (CN 104) flew by November 2010. The third aircraft (serial number 103) similarly completed its first test flight on 12 September 2009. The second ARJ21 (serial number 102) completed the same test flight route on 24 August 2009. The aircraft completed a long-distance test flight on 15 July 2009, flying from Shanghai to Xi'an in 2 hours 19 minutes, over a distance of 1,300 km.
The first prototype (serial number 101) rolled out on 21 December 2007, with a maiden flight on 28 November 2008 at Shanghai's Dachang Airfield.
The design work was delayed and the final trial production stage did not begin until June 2006. The programme became eight years behind schedule. The maiden flight of the ARJ21 was initially planned to take place in 2005 with commercial service beginning 18 months later. It began in March 2002 and was led by the state-owned ACAC consortium. The development of the ARJ21 (Advanced Regional Jet) is a key project in the "10th Five-Year Plan" of China. Joy Air ARJ21 Model at the 2008 China Airshow Resembling the McDonnell Douglas MD-80/ MD-90 produced under licence in China, it features a 25° swept, supercritical wing designed by Antonov and twin rear-mounted General Electric CF34 engines. It received its CAAC Type Certification on 30 December 2014 and was introduced on 28 June 2016 by Chengdu Airlines. 'Soaring Phoenix') is a 78–90 seat regional jet manufactured by the Chinese state-owned aerospace company Comac.ĭevelopment of the ARJ21 (Advanced Regional Jet) began in March 2002, the first prototype was rolled out on 21 December 2007, and made its maiden flight on 28 November 2008 from Shanghai. The Comac ARJ21 Xiangfeng ( Chinese: 翔凤 pinyin: xiángfèng lit. In production, in service (deliveries began) Regional airliner by Comac ARJ21 XiangfengĪRJ21-700 in flight at the Zhuhai Air Show (2010).ĪVIC I Commercial Aircraft Company (ACAC)