Chengdu CBJ800

The Chengdu CBJ800, nicknamed Pegasus, is a Chinese business jet project developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group with collaboration from Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, Hongdu Aviation Industry Group, AVIC International and Chengdu Industry Investment Corporation. The name stands for Chinese Business Jet 800. The design was first shown at the Zhuhai Airshow in 2012 under the label Chinese Next Generation Business Jet, and it was painted with the formal name CBJ800 at the Chengdu International Business and General Aviation Exhibition in 2015, where the programme was described as starting formally in 2016 with a market entry some seven or eight years later. Aviation Week traced the design work to the 611 Design Institute of the Chengdu No. 132 Aircraft Factory and listed only a few known features: long range, a large cabin, high cruising speed, digital fly-by-wire, integrated avionics and an unspecified new-generation propulsion system. The sources read record no first flight, so it is carried here as a project under development whose schedule was last reported in 2017.