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FEATURE CHINA AVIATION

Zone to complete and customise light Relaxing restrictions Airbus’ Tianjin assembly
helicopters for the chinese market at the All this activity points to two significant facility is all set to be the
china completion centre; it aims to start aspects: the huge potential market that birthplace of the A320neo,
and other planes in the
operations as soon as the end of 2013. china offers, and what many see as the A320 Family
similarly, Brazil-based embraer and key to china’s aerospace expansion
the Aviation industry corporation of china and subsequent economic growth: the
(AVic) have signed an agreement to build loosening of current legislative and
embraer’s legacy 600/650 executive jets access restrictions.
locally, with embraer saying it will utilise in 2011, cAAc issued a series of
the infrastructure, financial resources new policies aimed at boosting private
and workforce of its existing jV, Harbin investment in the civil aviation sector
embraer Aircraft industry company. and opening the country’s civil aviation
embraer also announced an order for market to foreign investors. the new
10 legacy 650 jets from icBc leasing, regulations encourage private investment
including five firm orders and five options. in key areas of aviation infrastructure,
in addition – and despite Us- including domestic airlines, airports, and
domestic concerns about sharing cargo facilities. significantly, this also
intellectual property – ge also announced extends to services such as fuel supply
that it will continue to contribute its and storage, Mro operations, catering,
commercial integrated modular avionics and distribution systems, according a
(iMA) technology to a jV announced in report released by the Australia-based
november 2009 with AVic. the jV will centre for Asia pacific Aviation, or cApA.
supply iMA technology, displays, on-board “Upcoming [airspace] reforms will
maintenance systems, flight recorders clear some major obstacles in the
and flight management systems for the opening up of china’s low-altitude
new comac c919. airspace,” says Zhu shicai, an official with
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