Illustration: © Rostec State Corporation press service Updating its fleet with domestically manufactured aircraft is a strategic priority for Aeroflot. The MC-21 program is a cornerstone of this initiative, with […]
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Category: Civil aviation
Andrei Voropaev: MC-21 Cockpit Prioritizes Crew Comfort and Flight Safety
Photo © UAC Press Service As part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) press service’s “Yakovlev Dictionary” series, test pilot Andrei Voropaev, a Merited Test Pilot of the Russian Federation […]
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Ural Civil Aviation Plant Begins Assembly of First Flight Test Aircraft for TVRS-44 “Ladoga”
Photo by © UZGA press service In March of this year, the first fuselage of the TVRS-44 “Ladoga,” a turboprop regional aircraft, was delivered to the Ural Civil Aviation Plant […]
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SJ-100 Commences Certification Testing of Indigenous Automatic Flight Control System
Image © UAC Press Service On June 2nd and 3rd, at the Zhukovsky airfield of the Gromov Flight Research Institute (LII), the SJ-100 prototype aircraft (registration number 97021, serial number […]
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MC-21 Undergoes Lightning Protection Ground Tests at Zhukovsky
Photo © Press Service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation The MC-21-310 aircraft, tail number 73051, is currently undergoing supplementary ground tests at the Flight […]
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MC-21 – May 2025 Digest
Photo © UAC Press Service The MC-21-310 prototype aircraft, tail number 73055 (MS.0012), completed a ferry flight from Irkutsk to Zhukovsky on May 7, 2025. This aircraft features partially indigenized […]
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Assembly of Additional MC-21 Fuselage Sections Completed at Irkutsk Aviation Plant
Image by © Olga Novikova, Irkutsk Aircraft Builder factory newspaper The Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAP) continues to advance the production of the MC-21 passenger aircraft with the assembly of new […]
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To the MC-21’s Maiden Flight: Sanctions Did Not Halt the Aircraft’s Development
Image by © UAC Press Service The first flight of the MC-21 aircraft took place on 28 May 2017. Aircraft 73051 lifted off from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant airfield, completing […]
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Where Sanctions Against Russia Lead — The Case of Finnair
Photo: © Masakatsu Ukon / Creative Commons licence Following the closure of Russian airspace to European carriers in spring 2022, Finnair lost routes that previously allowed efficient air connections between […]
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SJ-100 Certification Tests Commence in Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Image by © UAC Press Service Certification testing of the SJ-100 aircraft has commenced at Dzyomgi Aerodrome, part of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant. Flight operations are being conducted by aircraft […]
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