Chinese Airboeing

China is one of the biggest aviation markets in the world but they solely rely on Boeing and Airbus to supply them with aircraft. China is yet again trying to manufacture aircraft's.  In 1980 China attempted this same idea but failed.  Now China’s multibillion-dollar effort to create the homegrown C919 jetliner is intended to reduce some of China’s needs to rely on foreign commercial aircraft manufactures like Boeing and Airbus. 

I want to say that the COMAC C919 will not get FAA certification, but I know maybe not today or tomorrow but they will eventually.  COMAC will eventually get their FAA certification for their aircrafts because at some point in time it will be hard for the FAA to deny or delay certification based on performance, design, or any other component they can think of. Because at that time COMAC would have evolved and corrected any problems the FAA had with their aircraft. 

   

If the C919 receives FAA certification, Boeing and Airbus may have a problem because COMAC intents to sale their aircraft at a lower price then Boeing and Airbus. But also if the FAA certification is given to COMAC and its aircraft it will boost their reputation, which they need to sale their aircrafts in the U.S. and cleared the way for the plane to be sold and operated globally - though expectations for foreign sales had been low (Govindasamy and Miller, 2015). Without the FAA, COMAC aircrafts can operate only in China and some Asian, African and South American countries that recognize the CAAC's certificate (Govindasamy and Miller, 2015).  If the C919 were to receive FAA certification I do believe that other company would try to manufacture aircrafts but they will not last long.

COMAC, Which stands for Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ldtd. is a Chinese state-owned aerospace manufacturer that is jointly established by Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Aluminum Corporation of China, Baosteel Group Corporation, Sinochem Group, Shanghai Guosheng Corporation Limited, and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (english.comac.cc).

The C919, a twin-engine, narrow-body aircraft seating up to 168 passengers, which is similar in size to the Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 series of jets (Bloomberg News, 2015). The C919 will have a flying range around 3,451 miles, it is designed to compete head-to-head with its Airbus and Boeing rivals, and said to easily cover popular business and leisure routes from China such as Shanghai to Singapore and Beijing to Bangkok (Jiang, 2015).

Another state-owned company in China is developing a smaller regional jet, called the Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century or the ARJ-21. The ARJ-21-700 will seat 90 passengers in an all-economy cabin arrangement. The ARJ-21-900 is intended to seat 115 passengers. The ARJ-21 will compete with the Embraer produced by Brazil and Bombardier produced by Canada.  COMAC also has future plans to build a C929 and C939, which are wide-body aircraft's that will have a seating capacity of approximately 300 and 400.

Boeing and Airbus seems to be very quiet, I was unable to find anything on their response to the unveiling of the Chinese c919. 

References 

Govindasamy, S., & Miller, M. (2015, October 21). Exclusive: China-made regional jet set for delivery, but no U.S. certification. Retrieved from http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/21/us-china-aircraft-arj21-exclusive-idUSKCN0SF2XN20151021

C919_Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://english.comac.cc/products/ca/

Jiang, S. (2015, November 2). China takes on Boeing, Airbus with new passenger jet - CNN.com. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/02/asia/china-new-c919-passenger-jet/index.html