Fri, Mar 26, 2010
Construction Of Factory That Will Manufacture CSeries Aircraft
Fuselage Underway
Construction of the facility that will build the fuselage for
the all-new Bombardier CSeries mainline commercial jetliner has
begun. The event - another step in Bombardier's progress toward a
2013 entry-into-service for the CSeries aircraft - was marked with
a foundation stone-laying ceremony today at the site in Shenyang,
China.
The 226,042 sq. ft. facility will be operated by Shenyang
Aircraft Corporation (SAC), a subsidiary of the state-owned
aviation industrial entity, China Aviation Industry Corporation
(AVIC). SAC is a key supplier in the Bombardier CSeries aircraft
program.
Pierre Beaudoin, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Bombardier Inc. took part in the ceremony at the Shenyang National
Aviation and High Technology Industrial Base in Dongling
District.
"Bombardier believes in the China aviation industry and is
encouraged to see the further development of the Shenyang National
Aviation and High Technology Industrial Base as a center of design
and manufacturing excellence," Beaudoin said.
SAC delivered the first test article in the CSeries aircraft
program - a fuselage test barrel - to Bombardier's Saint-Laurent,
Quebec site on August 19, 2009. The test barrel is being used to
demonstrate manufacturing and engineering structural concepts
before the CSeries aircraft's final design phase begins later this
year. It has already been subjected to 40,000 simulated flight
cycles of testing.
The Shenyang facility joins two other new CSeries aircraft
installations that are already under construction. In September
2009, Bombardier celebrated the groundbreaking of the first CSeries
aircraft building in Quebec, Canada. Located in Mirabel, 45 minutes
north of Montreal, the Complete Integrated Aircraft Systems Test
Area (CIASTA) will test aircraft systems for reliability and
functionality one year before the first prototype aircraft flies.
In November 2009, construction got under way on the company's new
state-of-the-art aircraft wing manufacturing and assembly facility
in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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