Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Harry12345 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, December 26, the world's first C919 aircraft was delivered to China Eastern Airlines on December 9 this year. However, since the C919 is the first aircraft in the world, on the basis of obtaining the initial approval of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, China Eastern Airlines will begin to carry out an empty aircraft verification test flight of more than 100 hours from today to verify and confirm the aircraft's operational safety, maintenance reliability, and various operational support capabilities.

According to App data, the first flight is scheduled to take off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to Beijing Capital Airport at 13:00 today and return to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport at 17:25. The round trip flight is expected to take 3.5 hours. This is also the first time that the C919 delivery plane painted by China Eastern Airlines has arrived in Beijing.

In addition, China Eastern Airlines will apply to the Civil Aviation Administration for "operating norms", and the first C919 is expected to meet the regulations of the Civil Aviation Administration as early as the spring of 2023 and put into commercial passenger operation. In addition, the remaining four of China Eastern's first C919 orders will be delivered in the next two years.

CTOnews.com learned that China Eastern Airlines has specially set up a C919 flight department, selecting 24 pilots with rich experience, superb skills, and excellent work style as the first batch of civil aviation C919 pilots, and the first crew team and the first batch of aircraft engineers are also ready. At present, China Eastern Airlines has prepared 5 pilots, 24 flight attendants and more than 30 engineers, enough to meet the initial verification flight requirements. In addition, in order to verify the safe operation capability of the C919 in a large range and high frequency, China Eastern Airlines has also selected several typical airports as verification flight sites, including Beijing Capital, Beijing Daxing, Haikou, Nanchang and so on.

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