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Russia's first new post-Soviet airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 prototype, took off from Komsomolsk-on-Amur on 19 May 2008 and flew for 1 hour 5 minutes to 1,200 m with test pilots Alexander Yablontsev and Leonid Chikunov.

The first Boeing 777 Freighter took off from Paine Field at 10 a.m. PDT on 14 July 2008, flew for just over three and a half hours and returned to Paine Field after a data-link problem.

China's first domestically developed regional jet, the ARJ21 prototype, made its maiden flight on 28 November 2008 from Shanghai's Dachang Airfield, flying for about an hour to 9,000 feet.

The first A330-200F freighter, F-WWYE, took off from Toulouse-Blagnac on 5 November 2009 for a flight of about 3 hours 50 minutes that opened a 180-hour test programme.

Boeing's 747-8 Freighter, the largest airplane the company had built, flew for the first time from Paine Field on 8 February 2010, a year later than planned. The 3 hour 39 minute flight began a test program of more than 1,600 flight hours.

The first A350-900, MSN1 F-WXWB, took off from Toulouse-Blagnac at 10:00 local time on 14 June 2013 and flew for 4 hours 5 minutes over south-western France, opening a 2,500-hour flight-test campaign.

The first Bombardier CS100, flight test vehicle FTV1, flew for about two and a half hours from Montreal-Mirabel on 16 September 2013, the first flight of the jet that became the Airbus A220.

The stretched 787-9 flew for the first time on 17 September 2013, a 5-hour, 16-minute flight from Paine Field to Boeing Field. Boeing called it a no-squawk flight and targeted certification and first delivery for mid-2014.

The first A320neo, F-WNEO with Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines, flew from Toulouse-Blagnac on 25 September 2014, starting a 3,000-hour test campaign.

Bombardier's first CS300, C-FFDK, flew almost five hours from Montreal-Mirabel on 27 February 2015, reaching 41,000 ft; the type later became the Airbus A220-300.

The first 737 MAX 8 took off from Renton on January 29, 2016 and landed at Boeing Field after a two-hour, 47-minute flight, starting flight testing of the re-engined 737 family on schedule.

The first E190-E2 took off from São José dos Campos at 1:06 p.m. on 23 May 2016 for a 3 h 20 min flight to Mach 0.82 and 41,000 ft, starting the certification campaign for the E2 family.

The first A350-1000, MSN059 with Trent XWB-97 engines, flew from Toulouse-Blagnac on 24 November 2016 for 4 hours 18 minutes, starting a sub-one-year, three-aircraft test campaign.

The longest 787, the 787-10, first flew on 31 March 2017 from Boeing South Carolina, a flight of four hours and 58 minutes. It is the first Boeing airliner assembled only at the Charleston plant.

The first A319neo, powered by CFM LEAP-1A engines, flew five hours from Hamburg to Toulouse on 31 March 2017 with test pilots Michel Gagneux and Eckard Hausser.

China's first large jet airliner, the COMAC C919, took off from Shanghai Pudong at 2:01 pm on 5 May 2017 and flew 1 hour 19 minutes with a crew of five, about two and a half years after its roll-out.

Russia's Irkut MC-21-300 flew for the first time on 28 May 2017, a 30-minute flight to 3,280 feet with test pilots Oleg Kononenko and Roman Taskayev, nearly a year after its roll-out.

The first A330neo, an A330-900 (MSN1795) with Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, took off from Toulouse on 19 October 2017 and flew 4 hours 13 minutes. Airbus planned 1,100 flight hours for certification.

The first Boeing 777-9, test airplane WH001, took off from Paine Field at 10:09 a.m. on 25 January 2020 and landed at Boeing Field after a 3 hour 51 minute flight.

The largest 737 MAX, the 737-10, took off from Renton at 10:07 a.m. on June 18, 2021 and landed at Boeing Field after about two and a half hours, starting a test program Boeing then expected to end in 2023.

A partially configured ATR 42-600S short take-off and landing prototype flew for 2 hours 15 minutes from Francazal airport on 11 May 2022, with the final larger rudder to be added by year-end.

Airbus's first A321XLR, MSN 11000, took off from Hamburg-Finkenwerder at 11:05 CEST on 15 June 2022 and flew about four and a half hours.

Boom Supersonic's one-third-scale XB-1 demonstrator for the Overture airliner flew for the first time on 22 March 2024 from Mojave Air & Space Port, reaching 7,120 feet and 238 knots.

The first A350-1000ULR, MSN707 F-WULR, flew from Toulouse on 2 June 2026 for 3 hours 43 minutes, starting a two-month campaign to certify the rear centre tank that lets Qantas plan 22-hour Project Sunrise flights.