United Aircraft Corporation will abandon the name Superjet (SJ-100) of its regional jet and link it to the brand “Yakovlev”. This was announced by Rostec head Sergey Chemezov in an interview with RBC.
“Yes, we will refuse,” Chemezov said when asked by a journalist if there are plans to move away from the English-language name. “We have it all under the Yakovlev Design Bureau and I think that’s how it will be – Yakovlev,” he explained.
Work on the development of a Russian regional jet began at Sukhoi Civil Aircraft in the early 2000s in co-operation with Boeing. In early March 2003, in Seattle, Sukhoi and Boeing executives signed long-term agreements under which the concern’s specialists undertook to provide consulting assistance and intellectual property for the design, production, certification, marketing, sales, after-sales service of the aircraft family and programme management.
The Russian Regional Jet received its first name on 13 April 2001 from Boeing CEO Phil Condit. This name accompanied the project for six years, until in 2006, at the insistence of French and Italian participants, the RRJ was renamed SSJ100, and in July 2007 Sukhoi presented the official name Sukhoi Superjet 100 at the Farnborough Airshow.
In February 2020, as part of the creation of the Civil Aviation Division, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft became part of Irkut, lost the status of a separate legal entity and was renamed Regional Aircraft – a branch of PJSC NPK Irkut. In mid-summer 2023, UAC rebranded and the Civil Division of UAC, represented by Irkut, was named PJSC Yakovlev.
The aircraft’s certification name is Russian Regional Jet (RRJ), its marketing name is Sukhoi Superjet (SSJ100), and its ICAO designation is SU95. Since July 2023, the import-substituted version of the aircraft has been called SJ-100.
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