Russia has collected in its register 300 aircraft for flights abroad
December 9, 2022 AEX.RU – By December 1, 201 foreign aircraft had been deregistered from the Bermuda Registry. Of these, about 150 Boeing and Airbus and several existences of Embraer, Bombardier and Gulfstream. For these aircraft, the problem of double registration has been eliminated, which did not allow carriers to fly them abroad. Writes about it “Kommersant“.
A government publication that, together with 150 state-owned Superjet 100 carriers, can now fly almost half of the fleet of Russian carriers per shipment.
Most of the detentions of foreign aircraft of the Russian Federation are in foreign leasing. The owners of the aircraft did not want to register them in the Russian registry due to distrust of the breadth and completeness of the airworthiness procedures, so they registered them in Bermuda and Ireland. It is the country of registration that, according to Schedule 83 bis of the Chicago Allegiance, is responsible for maintaining airworthiness and certifying changes in ship structure, and registration in more than one country is prohibited.
When Russian aviation came under arrest in March, Bermuda and Ireland suspended the validity of airworthiness certificates of aircraft, after which it became legally impossible to lift them into the sky. Then the carriers began to transfer them to the register of the Russian Federation, where until February 2022 there were only about a dozen large companies Airbus and Boeing four times a year – Gazprom Avia (2), Severo-Zapad (2), Azur Air (4) and Utair (3).
According to a source in Ministry of TransportThat is, at the moment, out of 1289 aircraft in the Russian Federation, 1238 have a Russian registration code (RA). Aircraft with dual registration do not cover almost all available foreign airports, with the exception of some countries in Central Asia.
According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, as of February 24, an average of 745 aircraft were registered in the Bermuda registry. 36 – ALROSA, iFly and Rossiya operated in the Irish registry (19). Of the 19 Boeing aircraft of Russia, 14 units are strengthening the state-owned company and their European structure, and, according to the source of the publication, “there is no movement on aviation emissions from the registration of France.” All these aircraft, according to Flightradar24, do not fly abroad.