Photo by © UAC Press Service The Tu-214 passenger aircraft is one of three Russian types that, in the coming decade, are intended to form the backbone of Russia’s civil […]
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SJ-100 – 2024 Year-End Review
Photo by © UAC Press Service One of the significant outcomes of the SSJ-New programme in 2024 was the commencement of certification trials for the first prototype SJ-100 aircraft, registration […]
MC-21 – digest for december-2024. Year results
Photo by © Mikhail Polyakov, UAC The maiden flights of the partially import-substituted prototype aircraft MC-21, tail number 73055, followed by the fully import-substituted 73057, did not take place. This […]
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The fuselage of the first TVRS-44 Ladoga prototype is in the final stages of assembly
Photo by © Samara Gubernia Duma press-service The assembly of the fuselage for the first prototype of the TVRS-44 “Ladoga” regional turboprop aircraft is nearing completion at the Avikor-Aviation Plant […]
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Six transport aircraft Il-76MD-90As delivered to Russian aerospace forces in 2024
Photo by © UAC The Russian aerospace forces (VKS) received the sixth Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft at the end of December. They were built in 2024 at the Aviastar aircraft […]
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Another Il-96-400T Aircraft Takes to the Skies for Sky Gates
Photo by © Alexei Filatov After more than a decade in storage, the Il-96-400T freighter aircraft, registration number RA-96101, completed a test flight in Voronezh on the 29th of December, […]
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Roscosmos airfleet has been expanded with a Tu-204-100V aircraft
Photo by © UAC Press Service The Cosmonaut Training Centre of the Roscosmos State Corporation has received a Tu-204-100V aircraft, registration number RA-64053, becoming the third member of this family […]
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UZGA has handed over two serial UTS-800 trainer aircraft to the Ministry of Defence for flight testing
The first two production machines “06” and “07” “red” and prototype UTS-800 “01 red” / Photo by © UAC press service The Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) has transferred two […]
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The preliminary cause of the E190 plane crash has been cited as external interference
Photo by © RIA Novosti Amid reports of external interference with the Embraer E190 aircraft that crashed on 26 December in the vicinity of Aktau Airport in the Republic of […]
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Statement by Dmitry Yadrov, head of Rosaviatsiya, regarding the E190 aircraft crash near Aktau
Photo by © Republic of Kazakhstan Ministry of Emergency Situations press service “Following the crash of the Embraer aircraft near Aktau, the Russian side immediately informed our Kazakh and Azerbaijani […]
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