COMAC announces new aircraft service company
7/10/2008 15:50
As part of it's large jet program, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of
China Ltd (COMAC), set up an aircraft service company in Shanghai today.
It's
named COMAC Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Co, Ltd It provides aircraft
maintenance and repair, pilot training, aviation equipment and materials leasing
and consulting for aviation technologies for both large planes and regional
aircraft.
Jin Zhuanglong, COMAC's general manager, said the service company
was among the COMAC's three key entities which were responsible for aircraft
design, manufacturing and service.
The establishment of the company was
another step forward by the COMAC to manufacture China's homegrown large
aircraft, he said.
Today's announcement came before the COMAC test flies the
ARJ-21 regional jet which is supposed to happen before the end of this year.
ARJ-21 is China's first indigenously developed and manufactured passenger
aircraft. In December, it became the first plane made by the the production line
in Shanghai.
The COMAC was set up this May after approval early last year by
the State Council, China's Cabinet. Headquartered in Shanghai, COMAC had a
registered capital of 19 billion yuan (US$2.78 billion). The State-owned Assets
Supervision and Administration Commission alone invested 6 billion yuan,
becoming the biggest shareholder.
With the establishment of COMAC, China
hopes to make itself capable of building aircraft with a take-off weight of more
than 100 tons, or planes with more than 150 seats.
Xinhua
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