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The new Yakovlev brand presentation at the Yakovlev Design Bureau’s LIIDC in Zhukovsky, it became known that the start of deliveries of SSJ-New (SJ-100) aircraft has been postponed to 2024. This follows from the presentation by Yuri Koritsky, Deputy CEO of Irkut Corporation.

In accordance with the comprehensive development programme for the aviation industry, by the end of this year UAC Yakovlev was to deliver the first two serial SJ-100s to Aeroflot Group, now the delivery of the first aircraft has been postponed by at least six months – to the third quarter of 2024. Certification of the new SJ-100 is scheduled for the second quarter of 2024, according to Yuri Koritsky’s presentation.

“Today, the MS-21 and Superjet-New programmes, we can say, have reached the finish line. Already next year we will start the first deliveries of passenger airliners in a fully import-substituted guise – with domestic systems, engines, other aggregates,” the UAC Yakovlev press service quotes Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov as saying.

At present, on the assembly line of the Yakovlev Corporation Production Centre in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in addition to two SJ-100 prototypes and an SSJ100 prototype, on which the PD-8 engine will be tested, five production SJ-100 aircraft are at various stages of assembly. The first flight specimen of the aircraft, with SaM146 engines installed, was handed over to the flight test station on 1 June. Techniques are preparing for the first flight of the SJ-100, which should take place by the end of this summer.