Image by © UAC Press Service After a year and ten months, the MC-21-310, tail number 73055, which was the first aircraft to receive PD-14 engines, has returned from Irkutsk, […]
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Image by © UAC Press Service After a year and ten months, the MC-21-310, tail number 73055, which was the first aircraft to receive PD-14 engines, has returned from Irkutsk, […]
Read moreMC-21-310 Crew (left to right): Alexander Solovyov, Alexander Popov, Roman Taskaev, Alexander Guskov / Image by © Press Service of PJSC UAC On 29 April 2025, the MC-21-310 prototype aircraft […]
Image by © UAC Press Service The Russian aviation industry is rounding off April 2025 with positive news: On 23rd April, the first flight of the fully import-substituted SJ-100 aircraft […]
Read morePhoto by © Yakovlev PJSC press service The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) and PJSC Yakovlev have entered into a contract for research and development (R&D) work aimed […]
Read morePhoto © Irina Pakhalueva, Irkutsk Aircraft Builder At the final assembly shop of Irkutsk Aviation Plant’s (IAZ) Civil Aviation Division (No. 277), functional checks under electrical load have commenced on […]
Read moreStand “iron bird” of MC-21 / Photo by © GosNIIAS press service As part of a collaboration with PJSC Yakovlev, the State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS) has developed […]
Read more© 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 […]
Read moreMC-21 composite stabiliser static tests / Photo by © TsAGI Press Service The most effective and economically expedient areas of application of composites in civil aircraft construction are their use […]
Read morePhoto by © Yakovlev PJSC press service The flagship project of the Russian civil aircraft industry, the MC-21 medium-haul aircraft has been facing challenges since 2014 due to Western sanctions […]
Read morePhoto by © UAC Fifteen years ago, Russia began development of the PD-14 twin-circuit turbojet engine. The main idea of the project was to create a modern, efficient gas generator […]
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