Aircraft
Partners Aim To Start CR929 Manufacturing This Year
Disagreements over sales responsibility arrangements for the Sino-Russian CR929 widebody appear settled as CRAIC readies to start building subassemblies.
A model of the CRAIC CR929 appears at the 2019 MAKS airshow outside Moscow. (Photo: Gregory Polek)
A model of the CRAIC CR929 appears at the 2019 MAKS airshow outside Moscow. (Photo: Gregory Polek)

China’s Comac and Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) plan to begin manufacturing subassemblies for the Sino-Russian CRAIC CR929 widebody by the end of the year following an apparent end to disagreements last year over sales arrangements that delayed the program’s progress, Chinese state-controlled media reported Tuesday. Having reached the conceptual design phase by 2019, the partners had fully defined the size, passenger capacity, and range of the airplane some two years ago. Using a metallic nose section for damage mitigation, the CR929 would feature a mainly composite fuselage and wings and seat 280 passengers in a three-class configuration while flying to a range of 6,480 nm.