The COMA C919 large passenger aircraft, developed by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), was delivered to China Eastern Airlines on December 9, adding the first indigenously developed jet airliner from China to the world civil aviation transport market.

　　In its registration number B-919A, the letter B is a metaphor for civil aviation in China and A stands for the first jet airliner. On the front of its fuselage is the wording World First in the form of a red Chinese seal.

　　This 164-seater aircraft includes both business and economy class. It represents a new generation of global single-aisle mainline passenger aircraft, in accordance with internationally accepted airworthiness standards and having fully indigenously independent intellectual property rights, according to COMAC.

　　"For all civil aviation staff, this is a special day. There is now a large aircraft of international first-class level produced by ourselves," said Zhao Hongbing, a spokesperson for China Eastern Airlines.

　　The aircraft will pass through more than 100 hours of empty aircraft verification test flights, covering multiple cities like Beijing, Xi'an, Kunming, and Shanghai, in order to verify the aircraft's operational safety, maintenance reliability and various operational security capabilities, according to China Eastern Airlines.