Posted on 07/18/2010 2:49:04 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Aerospace firm Sukhoi said Thursday that it planned to sign a “firm contract” to sell 30 SuperJets to a customer from Southeast Asia next week.
The company said in a statement that the deal would be sealed at the Farnborough International Airshow, which starts July 19 and runs for a week.
“This will be our biggest foreign contract for planes that have a catalogue price of $31.7 million each,” Sukhoi spokeswoman Olga Kayukova said Thursday.
Sukhoi chief executive Mikhail Pogosyan said June 11 that the company will supply the first three of its SuperJet passenger airplanes this year as Russia seeks to challenge Airbus and Boeing in the mid-range market. The SuperJet is Russia’s first major passenger airplane project since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The contract is worth a total of $1 billion, said Konstantin Makiyenko, deputy director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, adding that the deal may be agreed upon with a buyer from Vietnam, Indonesia or Malaysia.
The contract will “greatly reinforce the position of Sukhoi in the commercial aviation market, which is highly competitive for mid-range aircraft,” Makiyenko said.
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This looks suspiciously like the Kartika Airlines deal for 15 firm and 15 options that was made back in 2008.
30 planes, Southeast Asia.... I suppose the details will eventually released and we’ll see if these are newly ordered aircraft or merely recyled news.
With all the airplane buffs here, no photos? Does the plane fly?
It’s a nice looking very ordinary in fact. I think it is a step up from the “Jungle Jet” I flew on this weekend.
Link to picture:
http://sukhoi.org/eng/gallery/?id=5213&gallery_id=5&cur_gallery_id=90
Do these people ever produce something totally themselves? The plane looks like BOeing’s new one....
I suppose it has all the other features of the new Boeing too.
JUst the same it is pretty....
Boeing was deeply involved in this project with Sukhoi.
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