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First A320 Assembled In China Passes Maiden Flight

First A320 Assembled In China Passes Maiden Flight

he first A320 aircraft assembled outside Europe in the Airbus Final Assembly Line China (FALC) successfully completed its first flight today. The aircraft took off from Tianjin International Airport at 10:42 am and landed at 14:56. The four-hour and fourteen minutes test flight was jointly captained by Harry Nelson, Vice President Production Flight Tests and by Experimental Test Pilot Philippe Pellerin. The other crew members were Senior Vice President Flight & Integration Tests Fernando Alonso and Zidan Ren, the first Chinese Flight Test Engineer trained by Airbus as well as Cabin Engineer Eric Garcia. "The flight was a complete success thanks to excellent teamwork," Fernando Alonso, Senior Vice President Flight & Integration Tests, Airbus said.