SHANGHAI (AP) — China’s state-owned aircraft maker said Wednesday it is ready to deliver the country’s first homegrown regional airliner and should complete a bigger plane in 2018.

Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. said the first two ARJ21-700s have been completed for Chengdu Airlines and are coming to the end of the certification process. Comac, as the company is known, said it has 252 orders for the plane.