Irkut will equip the MS-21 aircraft with a Russian engine in 2019

One of the first flight specimens of the MS-21 aircraft will be remoted by the PD-14 engine in 2019, the head of the Irkut corporation Oleg Demchenko said.

“In 2019, we have a domestic PD-14 engine for aircraft No. 1 or No. 2 (flight samples of MS-21),” Demchenko said. “Somewhere by 2020 we will be ready to start the flight tests of this engine.”

The new Russian airliner will be able to fly on two types of engines-the American Pratt & Whitney and the latest Russian PD-14 engine, which is developed by the UAC Corporation.

According to Demchenko, from the point of view of cooperation capacities, the company is completely ready for this, TASS reports .

The head of the United Engine Corporation Alexander Artyukhov said that the development of PD-14 is under plan, the Russian certificate should be received in the second quarter of 2018. He also noted that for conducting bench and flight tests it is necessary to make 11 engines. At the moment, the 10th engine will be manufactured in September of this year.

The corporation is ready since 2019 to produce 30 MS-21 cars annually. To enter the planned volumes of 70 aircraft, it is necessary to resolve the issue with the acquisition of equipment, Demchenko also said.

“We are ready to produce 30 aircraft a year. Everything is clear here, and we know how to do it. But in terms of 70 aircraft per year - it is necessary to consider the issue of buying equipment, ”he said.

At the same time, he emphasized that production capacities allow you to reach such an indicator. MS-21-300-new generation passenger plane with a capacity of 163 to 211 passengers, focused on the most massive segment of the air transportation market. Thanks to the largest fuselage diameter of the fuselage in it, the personal space of each passenger was expanded in it. According to its flight-technical data and economy, the MS-21 aircraft surpasses existing analogues, say in Irkut. The main contribution to their improvement is made by a wing of polymer composite materials, for the first time in the world created for this type of vessels.