At 14:57 and 15:12 on July 16, Malawi time (20:57 and 21:12 Beijing time), two "Xinzhou" 600 aircraft flew more than 10,000 kilometers, passing through 13 countries, and successfully landed at Blantyl Chileka International Airport in Malawi. The safe landing of the two aircraft marks that the aviation industry has made new progress in practicing the "Belt and Road" initiative and serving the national economy and people's livelihood in Africa through domestic civil aircraft.
"New Boat" 600 transition
The voyage of the "new boat"
It has been tested by 3 highland take-offs, 2 thunderstorms and 4 night flights
The foreign section transfer began at 9:33 Beijing time on July 12, and two "Xinzhou" 600 aircraft took off from Kunming Changshui International Airport successively, stopping in 7 countries including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Tanzania; Fly over 6 countries including Myanmar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya; The flight lasted 5 days and 4 nights, accumulated 29 hours, and had a total range of 11,717 kilometers; It has been tested by 3 highland take-offs, 4 night flights and 2 thunderstorms.
During the transition period, all flight support personnel in the aviation industry adhered to the "customer-centric", closely cooperated and cooperated with each other to ensure that the two aircraft arrived in Malawi smoothly on schedule. At 10:30 local time on July 18 (16:30 Beijing time), the delivery ceremony of the two "Xinzhou" 600 aircraft was held at Blantyl Chileka International Airport in Malawi. Malawi government officials, officials of the Chinese Embassy in Malawi, the Aviation Industry Service Group and other units, as well as local media, attended the aircraft delivery ceremony to witness this historic moment.
Delivery ceremony
Behind the miles
People who fought for the delivery of "New Boat" 600
The delivery of two "Xinzhou" 600 aircraft to Malawi entered the busiest stage of delivery preparation in the second quarter of this year. The aviation industry Xifei civil aircraft actively implement the concept of "customer-centric", overcome the impact of the epidemic and other factors, strengthen internal and external cooperation, adhere to the "two-line operation", and steadily carry out related work such as user flight, pick-up acceptance, airworthiness inspection and installation preparation.
"New Boat" 600 night support
At the beginning of April, the delivery team of the aviation industry Xifei civil aircraft innovatively increased the pre-acceptance link of the project, and invited the aviation industry COFCO general aviation to jointly conduct pre-acceptance inspection of two "Xinzhou" 600 aircraft; Summarize and sort out the problems detected, formulate a detailed rectification plan, and implement the closure one by one. At the end of April, Malawi users officially carried out pick-up acceptance, and the acceptance of the ground, air and technical data of the two aircraft was successfully passed and won the user's approval.
"New Boat" 600 pre-acceptance
Before the Start of the Miles voyage
Delivered, not just 2 aircraft
In order to ensure the operational needs of users, the initial aviation materials and "three accompanying" (spare parts, tools, ground equipment) of the two aircraft will be delivered to the user area before the aircraft. The delivery team carefully carried out the initial shipping materials and the "three with" matching, packing, and in strict accordance with the user's requirements of the delivery mode and time node to arrive at Tianjin Port, in early April from Tianjin Port. The supplies arrived in Malawi ahead of schedule.
"New Boat" 600
In order to improve the efficiency of user training and flight inspection, the aircraft delivery team explored a mode of transferring aircraft to a different airport to carry out work, and coordinated the transfer of two aircraft to Yulin Airport, where the flight task is relatively busy, and concentrated on user training and flight inspection. Through the close cooperation and multi-party efforts of more than 20 people in the company's support team, the user training and inspection tasks of the two aircraft were successfully completed.
Guarantee team with "New Boat" 600
In June, the two aircraft moved into the sprint. Affected by the local sporadic factors of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, user representatives cannot go to the factory to carry out final inspections. The delivery team has organized various relevant departments to hold online video conferences with users for many times, fully and meticulously communicated with users to confirm, and accurately grasped the needs and concerns of users. After the meeting, the relevant departments of the company were organized to implement and rectify them one by one, and do our best to make users satisfied and users feel at ease.
In late June, the delivery team continued to work hard and completed the installation of relevant technical data and aircraft international transfer flight support tools and equipment to ensure the smooth transfer and delivery of the two "Xinzhou" 600.
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Source/Aviation Industry West Flying Civil Aircraft