First delivery aircraft of ARJ21 completes first flight

 

ARJ21-700 AC105 landed steadily at Shanghai Dachang Airport at 14:38 on June 18th, 2014, after a flight of 128 minutes. At this point, AC105 has successfully completed its first flight. AC105 is the first aircraft to be delivered to the first customer Chengdu Airlines, and this flight is the first flight test mission independently completed by Flight Test Center of COMAC (FTCC) since its establishment two years ago.

 It is reported that AC105 rolled out on December 30th, 2013, and was officially transferred to FTCC on June 10th, 2014. This aircraft has successively completed multiple tests, such as Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) de-preserving and start-up test, environmental control test, tightness test, onboard functional test of electrical power system, etc., and is installed with seat interiors and coherent systems in accordance with the delivery standard of the first aircraft.

 

 

Maintenance personnel conducted final debugging on the aircraft before flight test on June 18th, 2014.