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The plane was developed by the Baikal-Engineering company under the contract with the Russian ministry of industry and trade and is meant to be used by local airlines

The plane was developed by the Baikal-Engineering company under the contract with the Russian ministry of industry and trade and is meant to be used by local airlines

Russian light multipurpose single-engine aircraft Baikal was designed to replace the outdated Soviet-made An-2 aircraft

Алексей Заквасин, Елизавета Комарова В подмосковном Жуковском начинает работу Международный авиационно-космический салон МАКС-2021. Как отмечают эксперты, в этом году выставка богата на громкие новинки. В частности, российские произ�...

By David Kaminski-Morrow2021-05-16T16:19:00+01:00 Russian airframer Irkut has received the first MC-21 wing panels for a serial production aircraft, delivered to the Irkutsk-based facility by road. The 17.5m panel was manufactured at the AeroKompozit plant in Ulyanovsk – a distance of some 3,600km from the MC-21 final assembly line. Irkut will used the panels for the initial customer aircraft. This will be a -300 variant, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1400G engines. “Earlier, this aircraft...

By David Kaminski-Morrow2020-12-12T09:27:00+00:00 Organisers of the Russian MAKS-2021 Moscow air show are pressing ahead with the event despite the cancellation of the Paris air show, due to be held a month earlier. The Russian show is scheduled to be held on 20-25 July next year at the Zhukovsky airfield. Organiser Aviasalon claims that participant registration, which commenced in October, is proceeding at a “rapid pace”. It states that leading Russian aircraft manufacturers and “a num...