Honeywell has been selected by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC) to provide four substantial systems for the new C919 airliner, a contract valued at more than $11.3 billion over the program life.
Honeywell’s sizeable work on the C919 represents technologies where the company has long been an innovator, including fly-by-wire flight controls, the wheel and brake system, the auxiliary power unit and the inertial reference system that provides precision location data. Honeywell has been working in conjunction with AVIC and other companies on the C919 programs, including AVIC Dongan, AVIC FACRI, and Hunan Boyun.
Honeywell is also expanding its partnership with another Chinese Aerospace leading enterprise, AVIC, on top of its current cooperation on C919, the two companies established a Honeywell-AVIC Steering Committee to discuss a series of platforms which will have significant impact on Chinese aerospace industry.
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