Kraków 2024-12-10
Airbus A-220-300.
The Airbus A-220 is a commercial aircraft with a medium number of passenger seats and medium range. The aircraft is built in a classic layout; narrow-body, low-wing, classic aircraft tail, powered by two turbofan engines. The aircraft uses American Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engines, which have a gear.
The aircraft was developed by Bombardier Aerospace (Canada), as a competitor to the Embraer E-jet aircraft. The Canadians called the aircraft C-Series and initially planned to build two versions; 100 and 300. Tests did not go smoothly. Worse, Bombardier ran into financial problems. Work on the aircraft was suspended. After numerous negotiations, on July 1, 2018, the program was taken over by Airbus. Airbus acquired a 50.01% stake in the CSeries program in October 2017. The transaction closed in July 2018. Bombardier retained a 31% stake in the aircraft, while Investissement Québec has a 19% stake.
The CS100 (Airbus A-220-100) first flew on September 16, 2013. On January 18, 2015, the aircraft received a certificate from the Canadian Ministry of Transport. The first aircraft was delivered to Swiss Global Air Lines. The A-220-300 (previously CS300), has a capacity of 130-160 passenger seats. It first flew on February 27, 2015. The aircraft entered service with airBaltic on December 14, 2016. In 2024, approximately 240 aircraft were in service.
The Airbus A-220 aircraft uses 20% composites. The passenger cabin is equipped with large, rotating lockers for hand luggage. The width of the cabin allows for the placement of seats in a 2 x 3 configuration, for economy class. With such a configuration, the aircraft’s fuselage can be shorter. Airbus is trying to compare the A-220 aircraft to larger aircraft, which misses the point. The A-220-100 aircraft (previously CS100) has a capacity of 108-133 seats. The longer A-220-300 (previously CS300) can take up to 160 passengers.
T-T Airbus A-220-300 data:
Span 35.10 m (115 ft). Length 38.71 m (127 ft). Height 11.5 m (38 ft). Takeoff weight 70,900 kg. Range 3,400 nmi (6,300 km; 3,900 mi). Cruise speed Mach 0.82 (470 kn; 871 km/h; 541 mph). Operating ceiling 12,500 m (41,000 ft). Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engines depending on the version with 2 x 98 kN or 2 x 108.5 kN thrust. The engines are equipped with gearboxes.
Written by Karol Placha Hetman