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LONDON, Feb. 2 (Chinese media) -- Airbus and Xi'an Aircraft
Industry Company (XAC) signed a cooperation agreement here on Monday to have the
A320 Family wing "fully completed and tested" in China.
The agreement signed by Brian Fleet, Airbus senior
vice president, and Meng Xiangkai, president of XAC, in London, in the presence
of the visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his British counterpart Gordon
Brown.
According to this fourth phase of the agreement, the
wing equipping and testing will be done in Tianjin in a facility to be newly
built close to the A320 FALC by XAC, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Aviation
Industry Corporation (AVIC).
The fully equipped and tested wings will be directly
delivered to the nearby Final Assembly Line.
The wing box structures assembled by XAC in China are
now completed at Airbus' Broughton site, before being transported to the Final
Assembly Line in China.
The wing equipping operations are expected to start
at the end of 2009, followed by the first delivery of a fully equipped set of
wings in the first quarter of 2010.
"With this project, Airbus is fulfilling its support
to the cooperation agreement regarding A320 China wing manufacture," said Fleet.
He said that having this facility close to the FALC
is the most efficient industrial solution which will save transportation costs,
reduce lead-time and risks in handling, and ensures quicker response time to our
customers.
Meng said that "I am confident that we will also be
successful with this fourth phase, after successes in the first three phases."
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