【AFP】Airbus completes first China-made plane

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Airbus completes first China-made plane
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June 22, 2009 - 8:19AM

in China on Tuesday, in a symbolic event further marking the nation's global rise.

The first plane to be made at the plant in northern Tianjin, the only Airbus factory outside Europe, will be delivered to Dragon Aviation Leasing and will be flown by Sichuan Airlines, a regional Chinese air carrier.

A grand ceremony is expected to be held for the roll out.

The plane took its first test flight last month with the first Chinese test engineer trained by Airbus.

Ten middle-distance A319/320 aircraft will be delivered by the end of the year, before the factory starts to churn out up to four planes a month before the end of 2011.

The Tianjin plant, modelled on Airbus's factory in Hamburg, Germany, has an investment of nearly 10 billion yuan ($A1.84b) and went into operation in September in the presence of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

The joint-venture factory, about 120 kilometres southeast of Beijing, is 51 per cent owned by Airbus, subsidiary of the European group EADS, and 49 per cent by a Chinese aviation consortium.

Unions raised concerns when the deal was struck, but the aviation giant insisted orders would not fall at its European plants and that it had worked to minimise technology transfers to China.

China's air market, the second biggest in the world, makes up 15 per cent of sales at Airbus, which sold its first plane here - an A310 - in 1985.

Airbus' goal is to gain half the China market from now until 2012, compared with a 39 per cent market share in mid-2008 and up from a seven per cent share in 1995. Its main rival is current global market leader Boeing.

© 2009 AFP

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