Aeroflot and Rosatom will start producing spare parts for foreign aircraft

Aeroflot and Rosatom entered into a memorandum of strategic cooperation. As part of it, the companies intend to create a production structure in the field of aircraft development. The corresponding document was signed at the Eastern Economic Forum.

As part of the cooperation, they should, in particular, establish the production of components and components for the maintenance and repair of foreign aircraft. The necessary documentation for this will be developed by the airline’s design bureau. Aeroflot, in partnership with Rosatom, wants to “build a full cycle of the import substitution process for a significant number of foreign-made components and components,” its press service reported.

“Cooperation between Aeroflot and Rosatom will be a significant contribution to the systematization of work on comprehensive engineering and technical support for the airworthiness of foreign-made aircraft operated by the Aeroflot group and other Russian air carriers,” its general director Sergei Aleksandrovsky is convinced (quoted from the press). release, available from Kommersant).

On the background introduced The European Union imposed sanctions, including a ban on the supply of civil aircraft to the Russian Federation and their maintenance, and the Federal Air Transport Agency issued a permit to Aeroflot’s structure, Aeroflot Technics, to repair foreign airliners with Russian registration. In August it became known that Aeroflot Technics was the first in Russia replaced landing gear on a Boeing 777.

About the situation in the industry – in the material “Kommersant” “The Ministry of Transport is preparing planes for money”.

Laura Keffer