Russian Civil Aviation: News #5

I am curious to know who will be now buying Let L410, if they lose all of the russian world (main customer base).

Rodion_Romanovic wrote:Well, after the news from the other day it was to be expected.
I am curious to know who will be now buying Let L410, if they lose all of the russian world (main customer base).

Furthermore now Africa, another potential market, is it mainly in Russian and Chinese hands.

And there are already other western alternatives, like the Dornier 228 or the Twin otter, plus also Brazilian planes (embraer 110 plus a new one coming next year) and the polish copy/ modernisation of the An-28.

Basically there is market for a new russian model, but Czech producers will have to face competition in their possible markets from Germany/India (Do-228 NG), Canada (twin otter), Poland (M-28) and Brasil/ Portugal...

lancelot wrote:
Much like the case with Russia's PD-14, the CJ-1000A is supposed to be the first of a family of engines. They are also working on equivalents of PD-8 (CJ-500), PD-35 (CJ-2000).

The Chinese will not be relying on Western component suppliers for civil aviation forever.

flamming_python wrote:
The Czech economy is subsidised by the EU anyway. They pay the bills, and they call the tunes. A factory going out of business here or there is chump change.

I believe there's a monument to the sex worker for the Western sex-tourist in Prague.
Which just says it all really. And that's pretty much the policy of the country itself, sell your UN vote and foreign policy and Soviet-era stocks of weapons and your national dignity for money from Europe.
The Ukraine wanted the same deal, only in addition to all that they also had to Nazify and militarize their society and build up for a new blitzkrieg against the Donbass and then the Crimea, and that's where the problem occured.

Rodion_Romanovic wrote:Good for China. I am not that familiar with those engines, do you know how do they compare with western and russian engines?

Transportation to hard-to-reach areas on TVS-2MS aircraft will resume in the Tomsk Region
05/24/2023
Department of Transport of the Tomsk Region

The Tomsk aircraft building company Sibaerocraft has ordered a batch of TVS-2MS aircraft worth 145 million rubles. each with the possibility of expanding the contract for the resumption of intra-regional transportation in the Tomsk region. Rusaviaprom LLC is the executor of the contract, and Siberian Light Aviation may become the operator. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the director of Sibaerocraft LLC Ruslan Moiseev.

Earlier, in April, the Department of Transport, Road Activities and Communications of the Tomsk Region announced its intention to restore air travel to remote areas of the region from June 1 until the end of 2023. We are talking about flights from Tomsk to the city of Kedrovy, as well as the villages of Kargasok and Novy Vasyugan in the Kargasoksky district. Now flights to these settlements are not performed, there is also no bus service. Kedrovy and Novy Vasyugan are located in a remote area among the Vasyugan swamps, the only way to get to them is by winter roads or all-terrain vehicles.

“Our company has ordered four TVS-2MS aircraft, one aircraft is already in Tomsk, and you saw it today. It was assembled in Novosibirsk, but flight tests will be held at our site in Beryozkino. These aircraft will revive regional aviation in the Tomsk region and in the West Siberian region,” Ruslan Moiseev told reporters.

The planes were produced by the Novosibirsk company Rusaviaprom. According to Aleksey Kryukov, General Director of the company, the first aircraft is being prepared for testing, in the future the contract may be expanded to meet the needs of the region to provide the entire air network up to 10-12 aircraft. He clarified that this is not the whole party, there will be an expansion.

“The approximate need to close the entire route network of Kolpashevo, Novy Vasyugan, Kedrovy, Kargasok is about 10-12 aircraft. At the moment, the first aircraft is being prepared for testing. We hope that by the end of June it will receive a certificate of airworthiness,” Kryukov said, adding that the first four aircraft will be delivered by November, subsequent aircraft will be produced in the amount of 3-4 per year, depending on the needs of the customer.

At the same time, different airlines are considered as an operator, in particular, a new company with regional participation can be created, or Siberian Light Aviation, which previously flew in the region, can fly aircraft.

For the operation of aircraft, an operator is needed - an airline that will use these aircraft. We are considering attracting previously flying companies or creating a commercial operator, or following the example of Magadan, where a local airline has been created for such aircraft with the participation of the Ministry of Transport, which covers the region's need for transportation,” Alexey Kryukov explained.

According to him, the cost of one aircraft is 145 million rubles. Flight range - 1 thousand km, passenger capacity - 12 people.

In turn, Andrey Bogdanov, co-owner of the Siberian Light Aviation airline and adviser to the CEO, told reporters that the company is working on resuming flights within the region on TVS-2MS.

“We are discussing the issue with the administration of the Tomsk region on the start of operation of TVS-2MS aircraft, it will be Aeroservice LLC, a subsidiary of the SiLA airline. There are a number of formalities for this aircraft to be able to fly on civil airlines. We are negotiating with the Department of Transport. It takes some time to register the aircraft, to obtain a certificate of certification, airworthiness. We are planning to resume the destinations where "SiLA" flew, as well as to Parabel. The sites are maintained in working condition, you can start,” Bogdanov said.

In addition, Ruslan Moiseev said that Sibaerocraft plans to develop an aviation site in the village of Beryozkino near Tomsk. In particular, next year it is planned to concrete a 900-meter unpaved runway, and in the future it will be extended to 1,200 meters. Now the site is equipped with lighting equipment - it can receive flights around the clock. He did not name the exact amount of investment in the modernization of the site, noting that "we are talking about hundreds of millions of rubles."

He also said that the transfer of the production of TVS-2MS aircraft from the Novosibirsk site of Rusaviaprom to Tomsk or its expansion is being discussed. “Now there are meetings and discussions with the Rusaviaprom plant and the authorities about the possible transfer of this enterprise or its expansion to the territory of the Tomsk region. But so far no decisions have been made, as conditions must be created for Rusaviaprom to start assembling TVS-2MS aircraft in the Tomsk Region and develop our aviation cluster. We look forward to subsequent meetings with the governor with the adoption of decisions and a road map,” Moiseev added.

UZGA intends to certify the aircraft to replace the L-410 in 2026
06/03/2023, 20:12 2507

A year ago, in June 2022, Russia adopted a comprehensive program for the development of the civil aviation industry and engine building for the period up to 2030, according to which the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) was to produce 20 L-410 aircraft annually.

In total, taking into account the successful implementation of import substitution programs, the delivery of 178 aircraft of this type was envisaged by the end of the decade. But the ban on the part of the European Union and the United States of supplies for the Russian aviation industry of any components, maintaining the airworthiness of these aircraft faced big problems. So, the operation of the L-410 was abandoned in the Komi Republic due to a lack of spare parts .


In May, at the HeliRussia-2023 exhibition, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Oleg Bocharov announced that a new aircraft, which Russia and Belarus would create in cooperation, would replace the 19-seat Czech aircraft. Now the parties are negotiating the distribution of work on the project.

A feature of the aircraft will be a non-retractable landing gear, restrictions on the cost of a flight hour and the cost of the machine. The glider will be developed in partnership by Russian and Belarusian specialists. As part of the power plant, it is planned to use the VK-800 engine, on-board radio-electronic equipment - a complex created by KRET in 2019.

On the part of Russia, work in the project is entrusted to UZGA. The plant intends to certify and start transferring the new aircraft to customers in 2026, told representative of the enterprise, without disclosing the cost of the project.

“We have studied in detail the market for local airlines, so we have an understanding of what type of aircraft will be most attractive to potential operators both in Russia and abroad,” said the UZGA representative.

Preparations for the first flight of SSJ-NEW enter the homestretch
June 6, 2023

At the Production Center of the Regional Aircraft Branch of the Irkut Corporation of the Rostec United Aircraft Corporation, an offsite session of the Scientific and Technical Council (STC) dedicated to the preparation of the first prototype SSJ-NEW aircraft for flight tests has ended.

The session was attended by representatives of aircraft systems and components suppliers. Members of the Scientific and Technical Council highly appreciated the degree of readiness of the aircraft and the amount of system development, paying special attention to the issues of ensuring the safety of upcoming flights.

“We have reached the finish line of preparing the SSJ-NEW for its first test flight. Specialists of our enterprises have done a lot of work on import substitution of all foreign aircraft systems for Russian ones. The aircraft received a domestic control system, avionics, chassis, hydraulic system, air conditioning system and much more. The first flight will take place in the near future, after checking the equipment on the ground. Their goal is to ensure the safety of passengers, because in the future, SSJ-NEW, together with the medium-haul MS-21, will become the basis of the fleet of Russian airlines. We understand how important this aircraft is for our country, and therefore we are doing everything possible to put it into mass production as soon as possible,” said Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec State Corporation.

Based on the results of the NTS, a final list of ground checks was formed, which the aircraft must pass before the start of flight tests. To speed up the test program, the SSJ-NEW will make its first flight on Franco-Russian SaM146 engines. The second prototype will begin a flight test program with domestically produced PD-8 engines, which are expected to arrive in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the coming weeks.

“Within a few weeks, we will begin factory development tests, within which the first flight will take place. At the next stage, the aircraft will be presented to Rosaviatsia specialists for certification tests, following which the import substituted systems will be approved for use on board the SSJ-NEW. This will allow the start of serial production and commercial operation of the aircraft. At each stage of testing, our unconditional priority will be to ensure the safety and reliability of equipment, because soon this aircraft will have to take passengers on board,” said Andrey Boginsky, Deputy General Director of UAC for Civil Aviation, General Director of Irkut Corporation.

The SSJ-NEW aircraft is being created under the system and components import substitution program and will become another model in the family of currently operated SuperJet aircraft.

I know that they plan to have similarities with the Baikal and they have mastered the production of the similar sized l-410, but certifying the aircraft in 2 and a half years will be challenging.

Luckily they have already the engine and most of the internal systems ready.

Let's hope they make it.

ludovicense wrote:

https://twitter.com/Aryan_warlord/status/1666530950854111232

Does anyone have more news on this twitter?

IL-96-400M being prepared for the first flight
06/08/2023

The first experimental wide-body Il-96-400M, created as part of the Il-96 family aircraft modernization program, is preparing for the first flight, the date of which will be determined by the scientific and technical council after ground checks and runs along the runway. This was reported in the press service of the United Aircraft Corporation.

The aircraft received registration number 96115, the aircraft was painted in a new livery in the UAC corporate style. It is equipped with modern Russian avionics equipment, including a new avionics complex and other systems and components.

The Il-96-400M is a deeply modernized version of the Il-96-300 with a lengthened fuselage, PS-90A1 engines and modern navigation equipment. The board, depending on the layout of the cabin, can take up to 400 passengers. The aircraft is capable of performing transcontinental flights without intermediate landings.

In May 2016, at a meeting on the development of aviation in Sochi, it was decided to resume the production of Il-96-400M passenger aircraft. The Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov then said that it was planned to allocate about 50 billion rubles for the implementation of the liner production project for the period up to 2021.

The program for upgrading the Il-96-300 to the Il-96-400M version involves the production of one prototype and six production vehicles. The total cost of the program is estimated at more than 53 billion rubles. The comprehensive program for the development of the aviation industry until 2030 determines the start of deliveries of the updated airliner from 2025, two aircraft per year. For six years, it is planned to build 12 Il-96-400M aircraft

I am curious to know who will be now buying Let L410, if they lose all of the russian world (main customer base).

It has nothing to do with what the Czechs want or not. Sales of vehicle parts to Russia are banned EU wide.
Another reason for Russia to sabotage any future attempts at EU expansion.

since there the higher fuel consumption

Hole wrote:

since there the higher fuel consumption

A small price to pay for independence from the west. No more blackmailing.

New Russian long-haul aircraft will appear after 2030
13.06.2023

The creation of its own long-haul aircraft is scheduled for 2028-2030. Its development is underway. About itinformedin an interview with RIA Novosti, Deputy Prime Minister - Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

“Work was carried out with our partners from the People's Republic of China on a wide-body long-range aircraft (CR929 - note by Aviation of Russia ). Taking into account all the inputs from Western countries, changes will be made to our bilateral project,” he said in an interview on the eve of SPIEF, answering a question about the development of a Russian long-range aircraft.

Denis Manturov explained that the joint development of the aircraft will continue, but Russia does not stand still and is creating its own long-haul airliner project, now the Zhukovsky Institute Research Center is engaged in researching new technologies and determining the appearance as part of the current Integral research work.

Answering the question when the new airliner can take off, Manturov clarified that we are talking about the dates after 2030. “Perhaps in the period 2028-2030, but certainly not earlier,” he added.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade did not focus on the type of aircraft being created: whether it would be a narrow-body airliner (MS-21-400) or a wide-body one - a remotorized Il-96 with a composite wing. At the same time, the Irkut corporation is working on a version of the MS-21-400, and in Perm they are creating an engine for it with a thrust of 16,500 kgf.

As for the remotorized Il-96, back in July 2021, then Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that the plans of the United Aircraft Corporation included remotorization and complete digitization of the machine. Later, in September, he confirmed his intention to redesign the aircraft for two high-thrust engines, but this, according to him, requires the readiness of the PD-35, as well as a large-scale modernization and development of a composite wing.