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C919 verification flights
Cruising Heights
|January 2023
The The world's first C919, newly received by China Eastern Airlines, started a total of 100 hours of verification flights on the last week of December, laying the foundation for future commercial flights, which are expected to begin in the spring of 2023.
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The 100 hours of required flight time will last until mid February 2023, covering 10 airports in nine Chinese provinces and cities.
This story is from the January 2023 edition of Cruising Heights.
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