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In March of this year, the first fuselage of the TVRS-44 “Ladoga,” a turboprop regional aircraft, was delivered to the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) from the Aviakor plant in Samara. The assembly of the first flight test aircraft will take place in a dedicated facility at UZGA.

Upon completion of assembly, the aircraft will undergo a series of ground and flight tests. Certification will require over one thousand flight hours, as developed and approved by the State Research Institute of Civil Aviation (GosNII GA).

The TVRS-44 project involves over a hundred collaborating enterprises located in Yekaterinburg, Samara, Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Taganrog, Veliky Novgorod, Stupino, and Zhukovsky.

The TV7-117-ST-02 engines are supplied by ODK-Klimov from Saint Petersburg. The power plant will undergo certification testing as part of the aircraft. The empennage is being assembled in Nizhny Novgorod, while the Smolensk Aviation Plant (SmAZ) is responsible for the wing box assembly. SmAZ will subsequently manufacture the complete wing set for the “Ladoga.”

Development of the TVRS-44 began in 2021. The first prototype aircraft for flight testing is scheduled for completion by the end of 2025. UZGA has announced that another fuselage, intended for static testing, will be manufactured this year.

According to the Comprehensive Program for the Development of the Aviation Industry of Russia until 2030, the initial serial deliveries of the TVRS-44, totaling 35 aircraft, are planned for 2028. The previous version of the program, from 2023, had scheduled the commencement of serial deliveries of the “Ladoga” aircraft for 2025.

The TVRS-44 “Ladoga” is a twin-engine turboprop aircraft designed to accommodate up to 44 passengers. The project is being implemented by UZGA under a contract with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The aircraft will be capable of operating from paved, concrete, unpaved, and snow-covered runways.