China’s first indigenously built passenger aircraft scheduled to make its maiden commercial flight on May 28

China’s first indigenously built passenger aircraft C919 is scheduled to make its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a media report said on Friday.

State-owned China Eastern Airlines (CEA), the initial customer, will launch the plane’s first commercial flight on May 28 from Shanghai to Beijing, state-run CGTN TV reported.

The C919 is developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), and it was granted a type certificate by the Civil Aviation Administration of China last September.