ARJ21 aircraft completes high-altitude demonstration flight. Domestic regional aircraft flies towards high-altitude and special airports, shining their swords on regional routes
CCTV News: According to COMAC, the domestically produced regional aircraft ARJ21 has recently completed a one month high-altitude demonstration flight. Through this demonstration flight, the excellent performance of the ARJ21 aircraft and its compatibility with high-altitude airports have been fully verified, laying the foundation for further expansion of the regional aviation market.
This demonstration flight was conducted in Yunnan Province. Starting from July 5th, the ARJ21 aircraft took Wenshan Yanshan Airport and Lancang Jingmai Airport as bases and flew all 15 transportation airports in Yunnan in two stages, involving 52 routes and 124 demonstration flight segments, with a total flight time of 157.55 hours.
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Yunnan Province is located on the southwestern border of China, with access to both domestic and international destinations, abundant tourism resources, and high airport density. There is enormous potential for the development of regional aviation. However, due to the high altitude and variable climate conditions in some areas, civil airports have the characteristics of foggy, windy, mountainous, and short runways, which have put forward stricter requirements for the operation of civil aircraft.
Lian Hao, Deputy Director of Customer Training and Operations Department of COMAC Customer Service Company: Through multi route and multi range flights, we have gained a more comprehensive understanding of the characteristics of airplanes, airports, Yunnan's environment, and climate. This time, we are launching the ARJ21 cloud flight to make domestic regional planes dare to "shine their swords" towards high-altitude, high-altitude, and special airports, thereby proving our aircraft, airport, and market capabilities.
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The ARJ21 aircraft is a regional passenger aircraft independently developed by China, with a seating capacity of 78-97 seats. At present, COMAC has delivered over 100 ARJ21 aircraft to airlines such as Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, and Indonesia Lingya Airlines, and has opened more than 370 domestic and international routes, with over 130 cities open to air and safely transporting over 7.6 million passengers.