RuAviation

The Voronezh Aircraft Building Joint Stock Company (VASO) continues to supply aircraft kits for the IL-114-300 turboprop passenger aircraft to the Sokol Aircraft Plant in Nizhny Novgorod. In mid-January, the next batch of units, including the wing with nacelles and tail feathers, was shipped to Nizhny Novgorod, UAC said.

The share of Voronezh parts in the IL-114-300 airframe design is more than forty per cent. In total, under the current contract, VASO is to supply six aircraft kits. The deliveries are on schedule, which allows Sokol Aircraft Plant to fulfil its obligations on co-operation in the construction of IL-114-300 aircraft.

Oleg Yevdoshenko, IL-114 project manager of VASO’s programme directorate, noted that everyone at the plant is determined to meet the project’s objectives and is doing everything possible to provide partners with units in a timely manner.

“In November we handed over the centroplane, in December we shipped the wing for Lukhovitsky Voronin Aircraft Plant, where the final assembly of these aircraft is performed. In January we are to ship the next set of tail plumage. During the second quarter all other units stipulated by the current contract will be produced,” he said.

The VASO team solves the set tasks, among other things, by optimal organisation of the working process. Thus, in the wing production shop at the slipway assembly and off-slipway operations the work is going on round-the-clock, which allowed to speed up considerably the manufacturing process of aeroplane kits. Each kit includes a wing with nacelles and tail fins. The units are shipped already assembled with the systems.

In addition, the engineers of the Voronezh aircraft plant proactively developed and in coordination with Ilyushin designers implemented the project of replacing a number of dural parts of the IL-114-300 wing with lighter composite products. And when assembling the wing and plumage of the aircraft, more convenient sliding slipways of the VASO Engineering and Technology Centre’s own design are used.

On 31 December 2023, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a government decree, according to which UAC will receive more than 498 million rubles for the improvement of the IL-114-300 aircraft. The funds will be allocated to the corporation’s subsidiaries to finance the costs of the aircraft’s finalisation. No later than 31 December 2025, it is expected that at least three upgraded systems of the IL-114-300 aircraft will receive certificates of conformity of components based on the results of additional certification work.

In the current year Lukhovitsky Aircraft Plant is to manufacture two IL-114-300 aircraft in line with the comprehensive development programme of the aviation industry. At the same time, since the summer of 2021 the aircraft has not been flying, certification of the TV7-117ST-01 turboprop engine as part of the aircraft and the upgraded systems and units has not been performed.