© Pulkovo airport press service / Archive photo The Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia (Rosaviatsiya) has issued a strong warning to Egyptian carrier AlMasria Universal Airlines regarding persistent flight […]
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Category: Civil aviation
US Export Controls on COMAC Deliver Strategic Blow to China’s Aviation Industry
Image by Creative Commons license The escalating US export restrictions targeting China’s aviation industry have significantly intensified the technological rivalry between the two global powers. Since the initiation of the […]
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Over 65 Billion Rubles Allocated for Irkutsk Aviation Plant Modernization
Photo by © UAC The Investment Council under the Governor of the Irkutsk Region has approved the re-equipment project for the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ), a subsidiary of Yakovlev Public […]
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Aeroflot Anticipates Delivery of Over 100 MC-21 Aircraft by 2030
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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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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