Russian Civil Aviation: News

TR1 wrote:http://bmpd.livejournal.com/830024.html

Interjet having a very good experience with Superjet so far.

sepheronx wrote:

TR1 wrote:http://bmpd.livejournal.com/830024.html

Interjet having a very good experience with Superjet so far.

They are.

Just curious though, if Sanctions hit Sukhoi, how will they be able to supply spare parts for the jets sold so far?

VASO making another 14 Il-96 for the Government through 2024.
One for Shoigu's use lol.

a89 wrote:

VASO making another 14 Il-96 for the Government through 2024.
One for Shoigu's use lol.

You think this is a final order before the production line is closed? with such low vaues, VASO will be losing money anyway.

Note that some could be converted to tankers. In AFM there was a furious debate about Il-96 vs Il-78 in this role.

TASS wrote:

MEXICO CITY, June 23. /ITAR-TASS/. Mexico’s Interjet air carrier has put its eighth Russian-made Sukhoi SuperJet-100 passenger plane into service and hopes this will enable it to improve air service and increase the number of flights in the country.

“Sukhoi SuperJet-100 is an optimal plane for sub-regional flights and gives better comfort to passengers than other liners of the same class,” Interjet Director-General Jose Luis Garza said in a statement transmitted to ITAR-TASS.

He said the plane consumed less fuel and required lower maintenance costs.

The SuperJet-100 has recently received an official approval for flying to the United States.

Under the contract with Russia, the Mexican airline will receive 20 Sukhoi SuperJet-100 planes and also holds an option for another ten.

The first SuperJet-100 plane arrived in Mexico in the middle of last year. Interjet was the first Latin American air carrier to buy this plane made by Russia jointly with Italy.

Sukhoi SuperJet-100 is a regional 100-seat plane designed and made by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft in cooperation with Alenia Aermacchi. Its basic version can fly for a distance of up to 3,048 kilometers. An increased range is 4,578 kilometers. The company plans to start making a long-range version of the plane from 2013 and to offer a business version of the plane in 2015. It may be of interest to Middle East countries.

Sukhoi hopes to sell 800 planes until the year 2024, while the global demand for the aircraft of this class totals 5,400.

The SuperJet, the first new Russian passenger plane over the past 20 years, is being created through unprecedentedly broad international cooperation that involves more than 30 major international aerospace companies, system and component suppliers. Sukhoi SuperJet-100 integrates the world's best industry practices and solutions.

Sukhoi SuperJet-100 integrates the world's best industry practices and solutions. All aircraft will be certified in accordance with both Russian and international requirements. SSJ100's technical and operational performance makes the product fully marketable and capable of taking a solid share in the highly competitive global market. Thus, Sukhoi expects to sell 800 aircraft until the year 2024, while the global demand for the aircraft of this class totals 5,400. So far the company had secured 73 solid orders for the aircraft.

SuperJet-100 will in the future provide the basis for a whole family of planes, including transport and special purpose planes. However, now the main goal is the certification of the plane and serial production of 60-70 planes annually.

The Sukhoi SuperJet-100 family consists of two types of aircraft of basic and increased flying ranges with the carrying capacity of 75 and 95 passengers respectively.

100,000 flight hours in "Superjet"

SaM146 engines manufactured by NPO "Saturn" proven reliability



The total operating time of the park engine SaM146, are in commercial operation as part of the aircraft "Sukhoi Superjet 100» (SSJ 100), on July 1, 2014 over 100 000 hours. This is stated in the press service of  "Saturn" .

SaM146 engines designed for use in regional-haul aircraft of new generation.  principal customers SSJ 100 SaM146 engines are Russian "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines", "Gazpromavia", "Muscovy", "Yakutia", "Center-South" and foreign - InterJet (Mexico), Sky Aviation (Indonesia), Lao Central Airlines (Laos).  



The main indicators of reliability of the engines are at the level of international standards and international practices operation of modern aircraft engines. In particular, the willingness of engines to fly the aircraft (the reliability of the scheduled departure time) is 99.96%. SaM146 - first power plant, produced in Russia, received the international certificate type EASA.

"Saturn" - engine-building company specializes in developing, manufacturing and after-sales service of gas turbine engines for military and civil aircraft, ships, navy, power generation and gas-pumping units. Included in the DCS and is the parent company of division "engines for civil aviation."

United Engine Corporation (UEC)  - integrated structure, which produces engines for military and civil space programs, the installation of various capacities for the production of electricity and thermal energy, gas compressor turbine and naval units. Is part of the State Corporation Rosteh.

http://rostec.ru/news/4513902

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to calculate the costs that are necessary for mass production of regional aircraft IL-114 and approved the project to create a new regional jet "Rysachok", ITAR-TASS reported.

Appropriate instructions to the Head of State gave during a meeting on socio-economic development of the Samara region, which was attended by members of the Cabinet, as well as head of the company "Aviakor Aircraft Factory", which is planned to collect Elah.

To start the production of IL-114, according to the head of the enterprise Alexei Gusev may take about five years and 10-12 billion rubles. The President called the said amount "small for such a project."

Present at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the aircraft of this class in Russia is not, and rely on their foreign counterparts, considering the current foreign policy situation "pretty doubtful".

In late May, the head of the Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that thinks about the possibility of suspending the project to create a joint venture of the Russian company "Rosteh" and Canada's Bombardier for the production of turboprops. Earlier in March this year, the president of Bombardier Pierre Beaudoin told Bloomberg, which plans to create a joint venture in Russia to build Q400 turboprops may be delayed because of the events in the Ukraine. On a preliminary agreement between Bombardier and "Rosteh" for the purchase of 100 aircraft Q400 was announced at the end of August last year at the air show in Zhukovsky.

Probably IL-114 instead of Q-400 will be the replacement for still operated by Russian regional lines AN-24.

"Rusachek", the creation of which endorsed Putin intended to replace another veteran of regional transportation, the An-2.

When viewed from this plane the president sat in the pilot's seat. General Director of "Progress" Alexander Kirilin admitted that Avionics drive until the American, but the plant expects to soon replace it with domestic. The same situation is with the engines, which are purchased in the Czech Republic.

CEO of the company among the virtues of the new machine called a quick take-off and landing: the aircraft can land on the snow and the ground, while the length of the strip may be only 500 m.