Comac drops Russia from CR929 program

The joint project with Russia is now designated the Comac Wide-Body

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UPDATE: Comac will proceed with its widebody aircraft program without Russia, an industry official confirms to The Air Current after being notified by the Chinese plane maker.

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June 20, 2023
Comac appears to drop Russia from CR929 branding
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PARIS – Just weeks after Comac’s first homegrown single-aisle airliner entered service, China’s commercial aircraft manufacturer has seemingly dropped Russia from the branding of its next design, a long-range widebody aircraft.

The company’s stand at the Paris Air Show featured a large photo of a project that has been previously dubbed the CRAIC CR929. The designation’s prefix – CR – connoted the collaboration between Chinese and Russian aerospace industries, formally teaming up in June 2016 to jointly design a widebody aircraft aimed at a segment dominated by Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A350.

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Jon Ostrower
Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current, where he leads coverage of the global aerospace and aviation industries. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Mr. Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network’s global coverage of the business and operations of aviation. Mr. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and a half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C., he covered Boeing, aviation safety, and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Mr. Ostrower was editor of FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. He is also an instructor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering's Aviation Safety and Security program. Mr. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.
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