article_snippet: The latest pictures have shown the final assembly work on China's first single-aisle airliner, which is currently under construction in Shanghai, is well underway.
article_snippet: Connected: Assembly of the first prototype airframe is almost complete from nose through to the tail, and the wing-to-body join has also been done .
article_snippet: Assembly of the first prototype airframe is almost complete, says People's Daily, with the main landing gear and forward landing gear also now installed.
article_snippet: The various parts of the aircraft - including the nose, front and middle fuselage, wings and tail sections - were designed by the corporation and manufactured in Chengdu, Shenyang and Harbin.
article_snippet: Almost there: Chinese technicians rivet sections of the fuselage together as Chinese assemble China's first domestically-made passenger jet plane the C919 .
highlights_snippet: Designed and built in China, final construction is now underway in Shanghai .
  