The Irkut Corporation has begun collecting production samples of the MS-21 aircraft. The governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Levchenko, spoke about this, Interfax reports.

The first production airliner will be ready around the end of 2019 – beginning of 2020, Levchenko noted. According to him, the first planes will be “tested” through the Irkutsk airport.

In addition, Irkut presented the third prototype MS-21-300 aircraft for flight testing. The aircraft was transferred from the final assembly shop to the flight test division of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, the Ministry of Industry and Trade reported. Two prototype MS-21-300 aircraft are flying under the certification test program at the Flight Research Institute named after. MM. Gromov in Zhukovsky.

MS-21 is a Russian medium-range aircraft manufactured by Irkut Corporation. The manufacturer promises to deliver the first aircraft in 2020. 175 aircraft have already been ordered, 50 of them were ordered by Aeroflot . The catalog price of one MS-21 is $92.3 million.

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Irkut began assembling the first production MS-21