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COMAC says Air China will be launch customer of C929 widebody jet

COMAC stated on Tuesday that Air China would be the launch client for the Chinese planemaker's C929 widebody airplane under advancement that is developed to take on twinaisle designs from Airbus and Boeing.

COMAC's deputy director of marketing, Liu Yan, made the statement at China's biggest air show in Zhuhai.

He did not reveal the variety of aircraft Air China would acquire or planned delivery dates.

COMAC has stated the C929 will have 280 to 400 seats and a. series of 12,000 km (7,500 miles), which remains in the very same classification. as Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.

The C929 was relabelled in 2023 from the CR929 after Russia. left a China-Russia joint venture developing the airplane.

A report in April from the C929's fuselage producer. said it intended to provide the very first fuselage area by September. 2027.

COMAC deputy general supervisor Tong Yu in May told a group. of Hong Kong press reporters in Shanghai that a C929 prototype will be. seen in the near future and approximated the jet could quickly take. a test flight, according to Hong Kong newspaper Tai Kong Pao.

(source: Reuters)