A presentation of the rebranding of UAC and Irkut Corporation was held in Zhukovsky at the Flight Test and Development Complex of the A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau. The civil division of UAC was named UAC Yakovlev. The Superjet 100 aircraft received a new name – SJ-100. Irkut Corporation was renamed to a new brand – Yakovlev.
The name of the outstanding Russian aircraft designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev has been officially returned to Russian civil aviation! All corporate procedures for the renaming of Irkut will be finalised in August this year.
“The Russian aircraft industry is at a turning point. Against the background of the departure of Boeing and Airbus, we are overcoming our dependence on imports and aim to fully equip our airlines with domestic aircraft comparable in quality, reliability, and other characteristics to the aircraft of world brands. By 2030, UAC enterprises should supply Russian airlines with about 500 civil aircraft,” Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov said.
According to him, the main burden falls precisely on Yakovlev, where 142 regional SJ-100s and 270 MS-21s will be produced. “Today the MS-21 and Superjet-New programmes, we can say, have reached the finish line. Already next year we will start the first deliveries of passenger airliners in a fully import-substituted guise – with domestic systems, engines, other units. The supplier of new aircraft will be a company with a new name,” he commented on the event.
Yakovlev produces domestic aircraft SJ-100 and MS-21. Over the past 20 years, the corporation has gone from a corporate centre at the Irkutsk aircraft plant to a leading developer and manufacturer of civil aircraft. Yakovlev today has 10 cities of presence in nine regions of the country, more than 20,000 employees and over 8,000 aircraft produced.
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