TO BOLDLY GO

This is a fiction aircraft used for ICM lore set.

Background story
China's aviation industry experienced significant growth in the 1970s following the application of systematic aeronautical manufacturing experience gained through cooperation with the Boeing company on the Y-10 program. The initial batch of the Y-10 series, equipped with four small bypass ratio engines, rolled off the assembly line at the Dachang factory of the Shanghai AIG in 1980. Dozens of these aircraft entered service each year in China's civil aviation sector and the PLAAF since then. The Y-10, with its four engines, and the imported twin-engine Boeing 737s formed a peculiar 'low-high mix' in domestic service for some time. By 1986, over a hundred of these aircraft had been produced.
In December 1985 CAAC imported their first new Boeing 737-300 aircraft equipped with CFM56-3B1 engines. These engines were more fuel-efficient than the outdated engines on the Y-10, Boeing 707 and Boeing 737-200, which were the mainstays at the time. Based on a theory that the new large bypass ratio engine would completely replace the outdated JT3, JT8 and FWS8 in the near future, CAAC started the preparation of desining new twin-engine and tri-engine large bypass ratio mid-size mainline narrowbody airliner in 1986. The tri-engine design is later named as the Y-13 and the twin-engine design as the Y-14. The new airliner program officially began in 26 February 1988.
Part of the specifications for the twin-engine design were established in 1989: utilising the fuselage cross-section of the existing Y-10 similar to the Boeing 737's use of the Boeing 707; twin-engine CFM56 engines; a basic passenger capacity of 145 (in a typical cabin layout); a maximum range of 4,000 kilometres, and a maximum take-off weight of more than 60 tonnes. Design began on 17 August 1990 in cooperation with Shanghai and Xi'an AIG. The design of the tri-engine Y-13 encountered multiple bottlenecks and was eventually cancelled in mid-1994. Fortunately the twin-engine design progressed more smoothly and the first prototype began structural assembly in April 1998 at the Shanghai Dachang factory. The first two prototypes were publicly revealed on 2 May 1999 with a grand celebration ceremony. Full static load tests were launched in December of the same year. The Y-14 prototypes were delivered to China's Test Flight Centre on 1 January 2000 and passed the maiden flight review in August of the same year. On 3 September 2000, the first Y-14 passenger aircraft made its maiden flight at Dachang Airport. On the same day China's first AC-driven EMU was completed in Zhuzhou. From then on, China's public transport business began to rise. The second and fourth prototypes made their maiden flights in Shanghai on 1 December of the same year and 1 April 2001 respectively. Test flights of all the prototypes were completed in May 2002. The CAAC issued the type certificate and production licence for Y-14 series in the same year.
On 4 February 2000, the Chinese New Year's Eve, China Southern airlines announced that it had become the first user of the Y-14 airliner. The contract for the first batch of mass-produced aircraft was signed in autumn 2002 but manufacturing was disrupted until late May 2003 due to the SARS epidemic. Deliveries of mass-produced aircrafts began in 2004.
By 2010 hundreds of Y-14s are in service of more than a dozen domestic and international airlines and the PLAAF.

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Credits to Rafalemmm for nose landing gear bay door and poster pictures.