Image © UAC Press Service Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected three import-substituted airliners — the Yakovlev MC-21-310, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SJ-100), and the Ilyushin Il-114-300 — during a working […]
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JetZero Advances Blended-Wing Body Programme Amid Persistent Design and Certification Constraints
Photo © JetZero JetZero has begun construction of a production and assembly facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, advancing its blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft programme centred on the Z4 passenger concept. […]
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SSJ100 Sustainment Model Rebuilt as Domestic Support Network Expands Across Fleet
Photo by © Aviation of Russia Russia’s SSJ100 fleet sustainment outlook has been reshaped following a post-2022 restructuring of engineering, maintenance and supply-chain support mechanisms after the withdrawal of Western […]
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Aviation Developments to Watch: May-June 2026
Image CC0 license (Public Domain) By Olga Evans People often describe aviation as unpredictable. I rarely find that convincing. Most of what later becomes “unexpected” has usually been visible for […]
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SAATM Liberalisation Accelerates Structural Shift in African Air Connectivity
AI-generated illustration / CC0 Public Domain License Africa, home to roughly one-fifth of the world’s population, accounts for just 3% of global air transport activity. That imbalance between demographic weight […]
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MC-21 Program: Monthly Digest — May 2026
Several developments moved the MC-21 program forward in May, including the launch of the MC-21-210 derivative, continued certification activity and the transfer of the first production MC-21-310 into flight-test operations. […]
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Russia Launches MC-21-210 Development Programme
Photo by © Yakovlev PJSC Press Service Russia has formally launched development of the MC-21-210, a lower-capacity member of the MC-21 narrowbody family, with a first flight of the prototype […]
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Russia Finalizes Indigenous Composite Supply Chain for MC-21
The deposition mechanism / Credit © UAC Russia has completed the localization of composite materials used in the MC-21 narrowbody airliner, establishing a domestic production chain spanning from polyacrylonitrile precursor […]
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MC-21 Program: Monthly Digest – April 2026
Photo © Ivan Kaverzin The first Soviet civil aircraft to obtain Western FAR Part 25 airworthiness certification was the Yakovlev Yak-40. Its type certificate was issued in Italy on March […]
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SJ-100 and Economics: How Fleet Size Impacts Route Profitability
SSJ100 on wet lease with Brussels Airlines, 2017 / Photo © Maximilian Kramer, Planespotters.net In the article “SJ-100: Strategic Role of the 100-Seat Aircraft in Russia’s Domestic Network”, Alexander Dolotovsky, […]
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