Tu-204-100 of Red Wings at Simferopol Airport, 2016. Photo © “Russian Aviation” In 2025, the planned increase in Tu-214 production at Kazan Aircraft Plant (KAP) was intended as a key […]
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Category: Tu-214
Rosaviatsiya Approves Major Avionics and Safety Systems Upgrade for the Tu-214
Photo credit © United Aircraft Corporation Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) has issued a Major Change Approval for the Tu-214 aircraft, covering a redesigned configuration featuring an entirely domestically […]
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Red Wings Adds Another Tu-214 to Its Fleet
Photo © United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Press Service Red Wings Airlines has taken delivery of another Tupolev Tu-214 passenger aircraft, registration RA-64549. The aircraft underwent a comprehensive airworthiness restoration, including […]
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Aircraft Certification Task Force Reviews Progress on Il-114-300 and Tu-214 Programs
Image © Press Service of the Russian Aviation Register Representatives from Rosaviatsiya (Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency), the Ministry of Industry and Trade, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), United Engine Corporation […]
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China Publishes Final Report on AviaStar-Tu Tu-204 Fire in 2022
On 8th January 2022, an aviation incident occurred at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport: a Tu-204C freighter (RA-64032) belonging to AviaStar-Tu caught fire while preparing for departure to Novosibirsk. There were […]
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Flight Tests Continue for Tu-214LL Modernisation and Import Substitution Programme
Image by © Timur Badretdinov / russianplanes.net A further flight of the Tu-214LL testbed aircraft, tail number 64509, was conducted on 21 February. The take-off was from Kazan Aircraft Production […]
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Tu-214 – 2024 Year-End Review
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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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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Tests of Russian systems and equipment began on the Tu-214 flying laboratory
Photo by © UAC Press Service The Tu-214LL aircraft, after carrying out work to replace imported components with Russian analogues, made its first flight at the airfield of the S.P. […]
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Kazan Aircraft Plant prepares import-substituted Tu-214 for its first flight
Tu-214 RA-64509 / Photo by © UAC Press Service Kazan is finalising preparations for the start of flight tests of import-substituted systems on the Tu-214 RA-64509 flying laboratory. Konstantin Timofeev, […]
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