Putin was reported about the first flight of MS-21

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and the Irkut Corporation team withthe first flight of the new MS-21 aircraft, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Sunday.

"The deputy chairman of the government Dmitry Rogozin reported to Putin that our average seamage aircraft stood on the wing by making the first test flight. The head of state also called the President of the Irkut Corporation, the general director - General Designer OKB named after A.S. Yakovleva "Oleg Demchenko and congratulated him, the team of the enterprise and all the employees of the industry on this significant event," the Interfax spokesman quotes.

Regional media reported about the first flight of MS-21 with reference to eyewitnesses on Sunday morning. After that, Dmitry Rogozin published several photos on his Facebook account.

In mid -May, Irkut reported a planned passage of testing on Earth. Then, as part of preparation for the first flight, the operation of the systems was checked, power plants were launched, and the aircraft was performed and runs at the plant airfield.

The family of passenger-medium-healers of the MS-21 ("MAXI Century MAXI") is a civilian project of the Irkut Corporation. The basic version of the aircraft is MS-21-300 with a capacity of 180-200 seats. In addition, it is planned to launch the production of MS-21-200 with a capacity of 150 seats, as well as MS-21-400, which contains more than 200 passengers. Since 2020, Irkut plans to produce 20 MS -21 annually, from 2023 to increase the pace to 70 cars per year. "Irkut" promises to make the car comfortable for passengers and economical during operation. It is assumed that the first operators will be Aeroflot Airlines.