COMAC ARJ21 ARJ21-700 CCF (C909 CCF)

The CCF — Comac Converted Freighter — is not a factory-built cargo aircraft but a programme for reworking airliners that have already flown. It opened in May 2020, finished testing and certification work in December 2022 and received its CAAC type certificate on 1 January 2023. The first aircraft entered conversion on 22 December 2022 at GAMECO in Guangzhou, and the initial batch used two ARJ21-700 ER airframes built for Chengdu Airlines in 2018 and handed back to Comac in 2021 after being withdrawn from passenger work.

Stripping out the 90-seat cabin turns the fuselage into a main cargo compartment: volume goes from the 20.14 m³ of the passenger aircraft to 115.48 m³, structured for PMC, PAG and AKE containers and pallets. Certified maximum payload is 9,467 kg and maximum zero-fuel weight rises to 34,163 kg, while operating empty weight drops to 24,666 kg — the lightest in the family, precisely because the seats and cabin systems are gone. Maximum take-off weight stays at the ER's 43,500 kg and range runs to about 1,500 nautical miles, some 2,780 km, which covers the express networks of eastern Asia.

Both launch aircraft were handed over in Guangzhou on 30 October 2023. B-3329 went to YTO Cargo Airlines for short-haul international work and B-3388 to Zhengzhou-based Air Central for domestic routes; the latter appeared in its operator's colours at the 2024 Singapore Airshow. It was Comac's first move into the converted-freighter market, a business that has grown in China at the pace of e-commerce.

Cargo is where the programme's naming gets messy. The order tables separate ARJ21-700F from ARJ21-700P2F: the latter is the passenger-to-freight conversion that corresponds to the CCF, while the former is attached to commitments such as Longhao Airlines'. The Spanish-language sheet, meanwhile, lists a generic ARJ21F described only as a freighter version of the -700, with no figures of its own. The available material does not settle whether a newly built freighter exists apart from the conversion, so only the CCF is recorded here — the version that holds a type certificate and has aircraft in service.