Rossiya received all planned SSJ-100s from Aeroflot
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“On April 27, the Superjet 100 will be handed over for painting in the carrier’s branded livery. The work will be carried out by Spektr-Avia in Ulyanovsk. It is planned to start commercial operation in the second half of May,” the company said.
The press release stated that “Aeroflot» handed over 42 ships and the company’s SSJ fleet reached 78 aircraft. In addition, Rossiya uses Boeing 737, Boeing 777 and Boeing 747 aircraft, as well as Airbus A319 and A320.
SSJ-100 is the first civil domestic aircraft. It has been in operation since 2011, and now domestic carriers have about 150 aircraft. After the start of the military operation in Ukraine and the imposition of blocking sanctions by Western countries, in particular in the aircraft industry, the industry faced the problem of assembling the SSJ-100.
In December 2022, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov in an interview with Vedomosti declaredthat the replacement of the SaM146 engines (a joint production of the French concern Safran and the Russian NPO Saturn) on the current generation of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional aircraft with Russian PD-8s is not yet provided.
At the same time, the PD-8 engine is planned in a new, “import-substituted” version of Sukhoi – SSJ-New. How wrote Vedomosti, the development of the SSJ-New will cost 120–130 billion rubles, this amount also includes the creation of a domestic engine.
General Director of the Ulyanovsk Instrument Design Bureau (UKBP, part of Rostec) Alexander Voit April 24 informedthat the first flight of the updated Sukhoi will take place in May.
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