COMAC's 10-tonne electric CE-25A completed its first piloted flight on Nov. 14 in Binzhou, Shandong, with two pilots and a flight-test engineer, China Daily and Xinhua reported from the company. China Daily said the test ran 57 minutes 46 seconds, including 16 minutes 38 seconds airborne, and covered 60.4 kilometers, and that COMAC said the aircraft performed normally. Xinhua said the Civil Aviation Administration of China has accepted a type-certificate application, and gave design figures of 19 passengers, a 300 km/h cruise, a 2,400-meter cruise altitude, and a 400-kilometer range.
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