But after China decided to build the C919 in 2008, the Chinese government set up a company to develop parts and a jet engine for the narrowbody passenger jet that is designed to compete with ...

[Photo/Xinhua] China's domestically developed C919 aircraft has sped up its commercialization process in the past year, with the model already being used to connect 10 domestic destinations.

The C919 narrowbody plane ... The self-reliance drive takes on more significance as Comac also strives to build widebody aircraft such as the C929 and C939.

This model of the ill-fated Y-10 - China's first attempt at a home-grown airliner ... The single-aisle C919, 15 years in the making, can haul up to 192 passengers for trips of up to 5,555km (3,452 ...

BEIJING/SEOUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Chinese planemaker COMAC plans to raise production capacity for its homegrown C919 single-aisle planes to 50 this year, a COMAC executive told a media outlet ...

a turbofan jet engine that it hopes will make its C919 truly Chinese-built. However, SCMP reported in February that China has not had a great track record of building home-grown engines.

LONDON: To ring in the new year, China’s homegrown jet, the C919 – nicknamed “daifeiji”, or “Great Airplane” – took its first regularly scheduled passenger flight outside the Chinese ...