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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MC-21 – April 2025 Digest
A photo taken from the escort aircraft Yak-130. © Test pilot of IAZ D. Denisov / Courtesy of the press service of PJSC “UAC” The first flight of the import-substituted […]
MC-21 – March 2025 Digest
Photo © Irina Pakhalueva, Irkutsk Aircraft Builder At the Sokol Aviation Plant in Nizhny Novgorod, preparations are ongoing for the production of MC-21 aircraft components. Manufacturing of door parts and […]
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MC-21 – February 2025 Digest
Photo by © Yakovlev PJSC Press Service A year ago, Sergei Chemezov, the CEO of Rostec State Corporation, mentioned in the wings of the Russian Federation President’s annual address to […]
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MC-21 – January 2025 Digest
Photo by © UAC In late February 2024, Sergei Chemezov, head of Rostec, indicated that the start of deliveries of the MC-21-310 aircraft would most likely be pushed back to […]
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MC-21 – digest for december-2024. Year results
Photo by © Mikhail Polyakov, UAC The maiden flights of the partially import-substituted prototype aircraft MC-21, tail number 73055, followed by the fully import-substituted 73057, did not take place. This […]
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MC-21 – digest for November-2024
Test pilot of the Yakovlev Design Bureau, Honored Test Pilot of Russia Andrei Voropayev and test pilot of the Yakovlev Design Bureau, Hero of Russia Oleg Mutovin demonstrate the cabin […]
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MC-21 – digest for October-2024
Photo by © Alina Rinchino / Irsity.ru Network Edition The Russian aviation industry is preparing to launch serial production of medium-haul and regional aircraft with maximum substitution of foreign components. […]
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MC-21 – digest for September-2024
© Alexander Shipilenko, russianplanes.net / Certification flight to determine the noise level. Flight 73051 passing over the runway at a height of about six metres. Archive photo Traditionally, the Eastern […]
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MC-21 – digest for August-2024
Photo by © Yakovlev PJSC press service Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ) celebrated its 90th anniversary on 24 August. During its history, the plant has built aircraft of all leading design […]
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