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Box 127, Moscow, 119048, Russia Web site: www.ato.ru/rco Read more news and stories at ww w.RusAviaInsider.com RUSSIA/CIS OBSERVER № 1 (44) JUNE 2017 1 AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Russia aiming to return to t u k r Tnhea corunrtroy’s nwew MbCo421 dairlyine r mfirst falewr ink latee Mt ay I Maxim Pyadushkin aircraft since the collapse of the Soviet program. This became Russia’s second Union. The project was selected by the commercial aircraft effort involving ussia is planning to make a government in 2003 as the replacement broad international participation after comeback to the most for aging Tupolev Tu-154 and Tu-204 the SSJ100. profitable segment of the airliners. In its maiden flight the MC-21 pro - R global commercial aircraft The development effort was officially totype was powered by Pratt & Whitney market with its new Irkut MC-21 nar - launched in 2007 by Irkut Corporation, PW1400G-JM engines. This variant of rowbody passenger aircraft. The first a subsidiary of the United Aircraft the PurePower ultrahigh-bypas-ratio flying prototype took off in Irkutsk, Corporation (UAC). Like with Russia’s powerplant family develops 31,000 lb of Siberia at the end of May. first post-Soviet commercial aircraft thrust; it also powers the A320neo, the The first flight lasted for 30 minutes; program, the Sukhoi Superjet 100, the Bombardier CSeries, the MRJ, and the the aircraft climbed to not higher than program is being led by a combat jet Embraer E2. 1,000 meters and developed a maxi - maker. The aircraft’s alternative, Russian-de - mum airspeed of 300 km/h, says OEM Despite the fact that Irkut by 2007 signed powerplant, the Aviadvigatel PD- Irkut Corporation. The airplane was was running a very successful Sukhoi 14, has just completed initial trials on an tested for stability and controllability. Su-30MKI multirole fighter produc - Il-76LL testbed and will now enter cer - The aircraft also performed a go- tion program, the manufacturer’s aspi - tification tests. A Russian certificate is around maneuver, then overflew the rations went beyond the military sector. expected to be issued in 2018. Deputy runway, climbed and turned. In 2004 it acquired Yakovlev Design Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozon has The first flight went as planned, Bureau, which had developed the announced that a Russian-powered Captain Oleg Kononenko commented: Soviet-era Yak-40 and Yak-42 regional MC-21 could take off in 2019. “No obstacles to further tests have been passenger jet types. Also in 2007, Irkut The MC-21’s avionics suite was de - revealed.” First Officer Roman signed its first fuselage component sup - signed by the UAC but features compo - Taskayev confirmed that everything had ply contract for Airbus A320s. nents supplied by Honeywell, Thales, perfor med nominally. The MC-21 draft design was ap - and Elbit Systems. Other foreign part - The MC-21 is Russia’s first domesti - proved in 2008. One year later, Irkut se - ners include Zodiac Aerospace, Eaton, cally designed commercial narrowbody lected the primary suppliers for the Meggitt, and Goodrich. More foreign 2 RUSSIA/CIS OBSERVER № 1 (44) JUNE 2017 РЕКЛАМА | ADVERTISING AEROSPACE INDUSTRY suppliers have been involved into set - between the composite skin and the ti - holdups (both organizational and tech - ting up the production line at Irkut’s fa - tanium beam. The remedy was to rein - nical). In the meantime, competition cility in Irkutsk, and also in delivering force the wing on the first prototype has been mounting. Now it looks like materials for production. prior to the first flight. the Russian aircraft will enter the mar - The foreign technologies involved in The avionics suite includes 9 x 12 ket behind the Airbus A320neo, the the program will be retained by Russia: inch MFDs, electronic flights bags, and Boeing 737 MAX, and, probably, even Irkut demands that its partners localize also enhanced vision and synthetic vi - the COMAC C919, which might limit aftersales maintenance of their compo - sion systems. The MC-21 will also be - its potential sales. nents in the country. The Russian come the first Russian commercial air - Certification in Russia is now maintenance partners are to be identi - liner with active sidesticks, supplied by planned for 2018, to be followed by fied by June this year. US-based United Technologies EASA certification in 2019. The name MC-21 stands for Aerospace Systems. The MC-21 backlog stands at 175 Magistralny Samolet 21 veka (Mainline The first prototype, rolled out in June firm orders, mostly from Russian gov - Aircraft of the 21st Century). It was se - 2016, represents the MC-21-300 base - ernment-owned lessors, plus over 100 lected to emphasize the innovative na - line version with 79,250 kg MTOW. It commitments. The launch operator is ture of the program. This will be the can carry up to 211 passengers to a dis - understood to be Russia’s largest carrier, first Russian commercial aircraft to tance of up to 6,000 km. The shorter, government-controlled Aeroflot. The feature a high-aspect-ratio supercritical 72,560 kg MTOW variant, dubbed carrier will receive its MC-21s via the lo - composite wing. Composites are also MC-21-200. will seat up to 165. cal lessor Avia Capital Services. In April used in the wing box, vertical and hori - At the start of the MC-21 program, 2017, Russian media cited the Aeroflot zontal stabilizers. in the mid-2000s, the aircraft was ex - CEO Vitaly Saveliev saying that the first The wing box and outer wing are pected to enter service in 2016. This delivery was expected in 2019. manufactured under a vacuum infusion was believed to result in the Russian Other customers include Russian technology at UAC subsidiary Aero - airliner’s high popularity worldwide, as lessors VEB Leasing, Sberbank Composit. During fatigue tests at the Airbus and Boeing had not yet finalized Leasing, and Ilyushin Finance Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute their plans for new narrowbody prod - Company, as well as local carriers such (TsAGI ) in February, the