The project of the Baikal aircraft, the launch of which Putin demanded to accelerate, was closed - the president’s envoy told. The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that the work was ongoing
Photo: Wikipedia The implementation of the project of the Baikal aircraft (LMS-901), which was supposed to replace the Soviet “corncelic” An-2, came to a dead end, Yuri Trutnev, plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District, said on May 14. “Baikal’s aircraft is not expected with us,” the official of the news agency quotes .