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Media: Russia failed plan to build passenger planes due to sanctions
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation planned to build 108 airliners in the period following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. In fact, Russia was able to build only seven aircraft, and the aviation industry was on the verge of failure due to the transition to domestic production. The BBC writes about this.
The seven passenger aircraft that Russia has built since February 2022 are the SuperJet 100. Recently, these aircraft have been experiencing technical problems: for example, in November, after a hard landing at the Turkish Antalya airport, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 belonging to the Russian airline Azimut burned down . After this incident, the director of the Yakovlev state company, which produces these aircraft, was dismissed “for the failure of the civil aviation program.”
The BBC clarifies that seven passenger SuperJet 100s have been completed from the “pre-war reserve”. Initially, this type of aircraft was created to compete in the world market, and a large share of foreign components was used in its production. A publication source in the aviation industry says that due to sanctions, manufacturers were faced with a shortage of foreign components: those parts that remained in warehouses were decided to be used not for the construction of new aircraft, but for maintaining the airworthiness of already built airliners. As a result, after the introduction of sanctions, the production of new SuperJet 100 stopped.
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In addition, two more aircraft were built - Il-96-400M and Il-114. They are now being used for testing. The publication emphasizes that it found information about domestic aircraft in unofficial registries, aggregators and media reports, since this information is not available in official sources. Previously, the Federal Air Transport Agency and the Ministry of Transport published the official register of civil aviation aircraft, but now it is hidden. The Federal Air Transport Agency explained that they hid this data due to the need to update it on the website.
In June 2022, the Russian government adopted a Comprehensive Program for the Development of the Air Transport Industry until 2030. According to the Cabinet of Ministers' plans, domestic manufacturers were supposed to produce 14 aircraft by the end of 2022. It was planned to build 25 airliners in 2023, and 69 passenger aircraft by the end of this year. Such an ambitious program could not be fulfilled: the delivery dates for the aircraft had already been postponed three times.
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A BBC source in the Russian airline industry said no one was taking the government's goals seriously. According to him, the program released by the Cabinet of Ministers was only “a placeholder to calm government nerves.”
“Of those who made it [this plan], no one considered it as a direct guide for work. That is, maybe somewhere up there they looked at it and believed that this plan would go according to plan and thousands of aircraft would be built by 2030, but in fact it was just such an imitation of activity in order to simply indicate it.” , said the interlocutor, who wished to remain anonymous.
At the end of November, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that the Federal Air Transport Agency wants to issue airworthiness certificates to the An-2 light multi-purpose aircraft, popularly known as “kukuruzniks”. These aircraft have been in use since 1947 and are designed to carry 12 passengers. The head of the Aerokhimflot alliance, Klima Galiullina, spoke out against these plans: according to him, about 300 aircraft of this type will go into the transport and agricultural categories, and this could lead to a shortage of transport in aerial chemical work.
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