The Comac C939 is a planned long-range
wide-body
A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast. The typical fuselage diameter is . ...
twinjet
airliner
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family being developed by Chinese
Comac as a competitor to the
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the world's largest twinjet and the most-built wide-body airliner. ...
and
Airbus A350
The Airbus A350 is a flight length, long-range, wide-body twin-engine airliner developed and produced by Airbus.
The initial A350 design proposed in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the Airbu ...
.
It is designed to be larger than the other two models in its domestically produced aircraft line: the
Comac C919 and
Comac C929.
Design
In May 2024, the designs for the C939 were reported to have a capacity of 400 seats and a range of .
The C939 is expected to be a
twinjet
A twinjet or twin-engine jet is a jet aircraft powered by two jet engine, engines. A twinjet is able to fly well enough to land with a single working engine, making it safer than a single-engine aircraft in the event of failure of an engine. F ...
.
Development
In June 2011,
Comac was studying the 290-seat wide-body
C929 and 390-seat C939 extra-
wide-body aircraft
A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast. The typical fuselage diameter is ...
. Preliminary plans for the C939 were mentioned in Chinese newspapers in 2015 and 2017.
In May 2024, ''
South China Morning Post
The ''South China Morning Post'' (''SCMP''), with its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Post'', is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remaine ...
'' reported that Comac had started work on the C939.
See also
References
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