PHOTO: Experimental aircraft MS-21-300 in the colors of Rossiya Airlines
ATO.ru – Experimental aircraft MS-21-300 (tail registration number 73054), owned by the developer – Irkut Corporation and freshly painted in the livery of Rossiya Airlines“(future first operator), arrived at the Flight Test and Development Complex of the Design Bureau named after A. S. Yakov (Zhukovsky, Moscow Region), where preparations for joint pilot operation will take place. .
:: UAC
As part of a joint pilot operation MS-21 Irkut Corporation (part of the UAC of the Rostec State Corporation) and Rossiya Airlines (part of the Aeroflot Group) plan to conduct training for command and instructor staff, pilot instructors, gain experience in flying on typical airliner routes, and also work out operational procedures.
:: “Russia”
In total, three experienced representatives of the MS-21 will take part in the program (at all three stages of the preparation of the company’s corporate gray-red-white livery), which will be based at the Ramenskoye airfield, where the Flight Test and Development Complex of the OKB im. A. S. Yakovleva.
The pilot operation program is currently being coordinated with the relevant federal departments. At the first stage of piloting will be developed by test pilots of OKB im. A. S. Yakovleva.
:: UAC
Aircraft with registration number 73054 is a prototype and performed in version MS-21-300 – equipping with Pratt & Whitney PW1400G-JM engines. It was assembled in December 2018 and died on its first flight in March 2019.
:: UAC
MS-21 – the first case in the post-Soviet period in the Russian Federation of the main aircraft; in a typical configuration has a capacity of 163 to 211 pass.
In September, Aeroflot Group signed agreement of intent for the purchase of 339 Russian-made aircraft, including 210 MS-21s. Delivery of the first aircraft of this type is scheduled for December 2024.
According to priority development program air transport industry of the Russian Federation until 2030 (adopted on June 25), it is planned to produce 270 imported aircraft MS-21-310RUS. — ATO.ru