Image credit © MAKS Air Show In 2025, the MC-21 program focused on building the evidential base required for type certification of the import-substituted version of the aircraft. Full integration […]
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SJ-100: 2025 Results and Outlook for 2026
SJ-100, aircraft MSN 97004 / Photo © United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Press Service For the SJ-100 program, 2025 marked a transition from conceptual and design validation to large-scale practical verification […]
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Russia Certifies Indigenous Flight Safety Systems to Replace Foreign Equipment on Aircraft and Helicopters
Photo by © Russian Helicopters press service Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) has certified domestically developed flight safety systems designed to fully replace foreign-made counterparts installed on Russian aircraft […]
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Digital Transformation at the State Air Traffic Management Corporation: A Case Study in Large-Scale Import Substitution
Generated by neural network / Image provided under a CC0 license – public domain In recent years, the migration of critical IT infrastructure to domestically developed software has shifted from […]
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Fully Russian-made Superjet Undergoes Wet Runway Certification Tests
Photo © United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Press Service Specialists from PJSC Yakovlev and the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) conducted a series of certification tests for the SJ-100 aircraft (tail number […]
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Russia Unveils Its First Homegrown Passenger Boarding Bridge Following Successful Trials
Photo © Rostec State Corporation press service Russia has taken a significant step toward airport infrastructure self-sufficiency with the successful trials of its first domestically produced passenger boarding bridge. Designed […]
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Ansat Helicopter Completes First Flight with Domestic VK-650V Turboshaft Engine
Image © Russian Helicopters Press Office The Ansat light multipurpose helicopter, equipped with VK-650V turboshaft engines developed by UEC-Klimov (Russia), has successfully completed its maiden flight. The test was conducted […]
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SJ-100 Wing Panels Assembled to Fuselage Using Russian-Made Mobile Fixture
Image © UAC Press Service The Yakovlev Production Center in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has introduced a Russian-manufactured mobile fixture for assembling the removable wing panels of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional aircraft. […]
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Moscow Aviation Institute Develops Method to Reduce Machining Time for Titanium Aerospace Components
Image © Moscow Aviation Institute Press Service Researchers at Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) in collaboration with the Gagarin Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAP) have developed a methodology to reduce machining time […]
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Russian D-ATIS Service Ready for Nationwide Deployment
Image by Creative Commons license A Russian-developed Digital Automatic Terminal Information Service (D-ATIS) for transmitting meteorological and aeronautical information to pilots has completed testing and is ready for nationwide implementation. […]
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