Kazan Helicopter Plant may double production in 2022
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OJSC Kazan Helicopter Plant (KHP) of the Russian Helicopters holding company will double the production of helicopters in 2022. This was announced on December 7 by the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov at the plenary meeting of the Tatarstan Engineering Forum – 2022 with the participation of and. about. head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
“KVZ this year will give double (in comparison with 2021 – Vedomosti) the volume of production of helicopters, and this is a great achievement,” he said, without naming the exact number of machines. Vladimir Ginsburg, Executive Director of Kazan Helicopter Plant, who was present at the forum, refused to comment on these data to Vedomosti, referring to the secrecy of information. But in May of this year, Nikolai Kolesov, General Director of Russian Helicopters, stated (according to a video on the website of the President of Tatarstan) that Kazan Helicopter Plant was provided with orders for 2022 and 2023. in the amount of 111 and 106 aircraft, respectively, while earlier the company produced 200 helicopters per year.
Kazan Helicopter Plant specializes in the production of three types of helicopters: the medium Mi-8/17, the Ansat light helicopter and the Mi-38, a helicopter with a larger payload than the Mi-17. “In the last 2-3 years, the annual output did not exceed 50 cars per year. The main bet was placed on civilian equipment, including Ansat ambulance helicopters,” says a former top manager of Kazan Helicopter Plant. According to him, light helicopters continue to be produced in “some quantities” as there is still a small stock of Canadian Pratt & Whitney engines.
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