Finally the Comac C919 the first passengers aircraft ever built by China came to first its appearance taken place at Comac's facility in Shanghai. The C919 has 158 seats configuration, seems it has direct competition with most popular narrow body of Airbus A320 series and Boeing 737 series. They expected to make its first maiden flight in 2016 and to enter service at least in 2019.
Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.) is a Chinese state-owned aviation manufacturer, founded in 2008. The company is designing and manufacturing narrow-body aircraft in order to autonomy to provide aircraft needs in country.
Because China is known as one of the largest aircraft market in the world. The company also claims that they already booked about 517 orders from 21 customers, most of them are domestic orders. Later on they on proposing and designing larger aircraft such as widebody-twin-aisle C929 as well as C939, both aircraft will have 300 up to 400 seats configuration.
