Pause operations: company temporarily curtailing operations while keeping return options open
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Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) functions as the main vehicle in implementing large passenger aircraft programs in China.
Pause operations: company temporarily curtailing operations while keeping return options open
Leave SuspensionThe Chinese developer of the aircraft - Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) - stopped mentioning Russia as a country participating in the project and now promotes the aircraft with a capacity of 280 passengers as an exclusively Chinese development.
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China will continue its program to create wide-body aircraft without Russia. This was confirmed by an official representative. In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of Western sanctions against the Russian aviation industry, China decided to abandon all Russian developments in the CR929 and replace them with Western ones.
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