The 2024 Singapore Airshow officially opened on the 20th, this old airline show can still be called the largest in Asia, and the influence of the radiation area is also relatively large, I think the biggest highlight of this airshow is the actual aircraft of COMAC C919 and ARJ-21 to participate in and fly display, why do you say so?
Because this has a very strong symbolic significance, that is, in addition to the European Airbus A series, Boeing B series other than the Chinese C series large passenger aircraft officially unveiled to the world.
On the first day of the opening on the 20th, COMAC received 56 aircraft orders, including 40 high-prototype C919 and 10 ARJ21 aircraft, as well as 6 ARJ21 derivatives of Henan Aviation Investment. Although they are all ordered by our domestic airlines, this also shows the strong strength of our domestic demand.
Why do you say demand strength? Indeed, demand is strength, if you have the ability to build but even your own domestic demand is insufficient, then you are destined to have a slim future, and there are many examples of this.
In the early years, there was a worry that the C919 would repeat the mistakes of the Y-10, and that it would not be able to survive or not survive well, and now it is completely impossible.
First, C919 is a type of world-class trunk airliner developed in accordance with international advanced airworthiness standards, is the latest design of the 21st century, and integrates the excellent products of many domestic and foreign advanced aviation product manufacturers.
Second, we only have the domestic market in the next 20 years to have more than 7,000 C919 level passenger aircraft demand, that is to say, our domestic C919 alone can win at least about 2,000 orders, and C919 can achieve profitability after selling 300-400 aircraft, which is enough to ensure that C919 aircraft not only survives but also very moisturizing, which does not include the possibility of exporting hundreds of thousands, which is only the next 20 years.
In this way, do you think demand is a kind of strength? Some countries have certain technology to design and manufacture passenger aircraft, but their domestic demand is not enough to promote, mainly relying on foreign markets, which will not work, and they do not even dare to envision this project. The other is that there is a certain domestic demand, but it is difficult to achieve development according to international advanced standards, product quality is difficult to guarantee, and it is ultimately difficult to export, so it can only be produced and sold for self-entertainment, which is also unsustainable.
Fortunately, our C-series large aircraft have these favorable conditions, and China is now the world's most complete industrial factory in the world, and the C-series large passenger aircraft can bring high-end manufacturing industry upgrading, so look at it, it really complements each other.
This time, the first aviation ordered 40 C919 high prototypes, which is different from the previous order of 1,200 aircraft, and it is also the first time that the series development of C919 has received an order.
C919 planning has lengthened, shortened, high prototype and so on, high prototype aircraft is more special, China's current use of high prototype aircraft Boeing 737-700, Boeing 757 freighter, Airbus A319, A330 so four, the airport above 2438 meters above sea level is called the high plateau airport, and our country is the country with the most high plateau airports in the world, the top ten we account for 8, Daocheng Yading Airport is the world's highest airport, 4411 meters above sea level.
The ARJ21 regional airliner completed a one-month high-altitude demonstration flight in August last year, fully demonstrating the ability to operate in the plateau area, and the C919 plateau model is the result of the joint research of ** aviation and COMAC, then these two types of aircraft will bring strong capacity to the air transport in the ** plateau area. It can also be seen that COMAC's product planning and research strength, the C-series passenger aircraft can meet the wide range of needs of customers around the world.
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