Image by Creative Commons license The implementation of a domestically-developed ACARS data transmission system in Russia’s civil aviation sector was a direct response to the challenges arising from the imposition […]
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Kazakhstan States Disclosure of E190 Azerbaijan Airlines Crash Data is Inadmissible
Image by © RIA Novosti On 25 December 2024, an Embraer 190 aircraft, operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, performing flight Baku-Grozny, crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan. There were […]
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Russian Aerospace Forces Receive Another Batch of Su-35S Fighter Aircraft
Image by © UAC Press Service The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have taken delivery of another consignment of Su-35S multirole fighter aircraft. The 4++ generation aircraft underwent a full suite […]
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MC-21-310 Prototype Flies from Irkutsk to Zhukovsky
Image by © UAC Press Service After a year and ten months, the MC-21-310, tail number 73055, which was the first aircraft to receive PD-14 engines, has returned from Irkutsk, […]
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Rossiya Airlines Removes Business Class Seats from Nine SSJ100 Aircraft
Image by © UAC Press Service PJSC Yakovlev has completed the reconfiguration of the cabins of nine SSJ100 aircraft belonging to Rossiya Airlines. The aeroplanes have been converted to a […]
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Yakovlev Refutes Gloomy SSJ100 Forecasts of 2022
Photo by © Aviation of Russia The initial pessimistic forecast regarding the number of SSJ100 aircraft taken out of service, made in 2022 amidst intensifying sanctions pressure, has proven unfounded. […]
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Experienced Superjet 100 with PD-8 Engines Completes Tenth Flight
Photo by © Aviation of Russia In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the prototype Superjet 100 aircraft, registration number 97012, has now completed its tenth flight equipped with PD-8 engines. This was announced by […]
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Unmanned, High-Intelligence Reconnaissance/Strike Tandem: ZALA Z-16 – Lancet
ZALA Z-16 and Lancet operators pictured during a combat mission / Photo: © Dmitry Astrakhan, Izvestia The ZALA-company’s ‘Lancet’ loitering munitions have undergone a comprehensive upgrade, significantly expanding their combat […]
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MC-21 – April 2025 Digest
A photo taken from the escort aircraft Yak-130. © Test pilot of IAZ D. Denisov / Courtesy of the press service of PJSC “UAC” The first flight of the import-substituted […]
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Anatoly Gaidansky: Certification Completion and MC-21 Deliveries to Airlines Expected by End of Summer 2026
Image by © UAC Press Service On 29 April 2025, the prototype of the MC-21-310 (aircraft 73055, MC.0012) in a partially import-substituted configuration performed its maiden flight. Following the flight, […]
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