This Day, That Year
Item from June 30, 1996, in China Daily: An MD-90 nose section is assembled at the Chengdu Aircraft Co. The first section was delivered last week. The aviation industry's long-term cooperation with McDonnell Douglas Corp turned a new page following the delivery of the first MD-90 nose section by CAC and the opening of a jointly run spare parts service center in Beijing ...
CAC will supply the nose section for MD-90 aircraft delivered worldwide ... At present, there are only two assembly lines in the world for MD-90 aircraft representing the latest technology: one in Long Beach, the other in Shanghai.
China signed its first aircraft export contract with the Egyptian air force in May 1979. By 2011, the country had exported more than 1,700 aircraft to about 60 countries and regions, according to the Aviation Industry Corp of China, the largest Chinese State-owned aerospace company.
