ARJ21 Aircraft's Demonstration Flight around Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
TapTechNews August 25th news, an ARJ21 aircraft of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China took off from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport today. After a 44-minute flight, it successfully arrived at Daocheng Yading Airport, which is an important stop of the ongoing ARJ21 aircraft's around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau demonstration flight.
Daocheng Yading Airport is located in Haizi Mountain, Sangdui Township, Daocheng County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with an altitude of 14,472 feet (4411 meters), and it is currently the highest civilian airport in the world.
According to the arrangement, during this demonstration flight, the ARJ21 aircraft will take Chengdu, Sichuan, Xining, Qinghai and Lhasa, Tibet as the operating bases, and fly to many high-altitude airports in Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu (TapTechNews note: Airports with an elevation of more than 8000 feet are called high-altitude airports), fully verifying the adaptability of the ARJ21 aircraft to high-altitude airports and plateau routes, the adaptability of airport ground service equipment and the applicability of special flight procedures, to better and more comprehensively meet the operational requirements in high-altitude areas.
The ARJ21 new regional aircraft is China's first medium and short-range new turbofan regional aircraft independently developed in accordance with international civil aviation regulations and with independent intellectual property rights, with a seat class of 78 to 97 seats and a range of 1383 to 2299 miles. It obtained the type certificate of the Civil Aviation Administration of China on December 30, 2014, and the production license of the Civil Aviation Administration of China on July 9, 2017.
