Posted on 02/04/2011 7:14:58 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Interstate Aviation Committee Committee (IAC) will issue a type certificate for the Sukhoi SuperJet-100 plane on February 3.
The IAC Aviation Register has also decided to issue a certificate of civil aircraft designer to Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company.
The company said “the type certificate will allow commercial operation of the plane and confirm its conformity with the rules and regulations of the Interstate Aviation Committee.”
The new plane will replace Tu-134 jets. The first SSJ-100 should be handed over to Armavia in early 2011. Currently, orders for 170 new planes have been confirmed.
Aeroflot plans to receive the first two SSJ-100 planes in March 2011. It can receive a total of ten such planes this year, 12 in 2012m and eight more in 2013. Aeroflot has ordered 30 SSJ-100 planes.
The plane has completed all certification tests, making 1,060 flights and flying 2,500 hours. All evidential documents have been collected and handed over to the IAC (Interstate Aviation Committee) Aviation Register. The manufacturer plans to receive a certificate for an upgraded version of the plane from the European Aviation Safety Agency in the middle of 2011 in order to take the SuperJet to the global market.
The plane has been designed by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft. It was reported earlier that serial plane supplies would begin before the end of 2010. The first planes would go to Aeroflot and the Armenian airline Armavia.
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This is the first post-Soviet era Russian jet built to world class standards. Excellent safety record to date. Sukhoi should compete well in the world aviation market with Airbus and Boeing.
I like the plane also.Sukhoi is getting orders for the plane.
Well at least those Boeing union monkeys did not work on it.
Not sure when/how they would compete with Boeing or Airbus when they are in the regional jet market, which is mostly Embraer and Bombardier. Maybe in the future if they are successful and want to invest into the long-haul market, but frankly, Embraer and Bombardier have done well in the short-haul, high-efficiency regional jet market with no overt plans to compete with Boeing and Airbus outside of their existing market.
I travel 8 - 12 flight segments a month domestically, of which 80% is regional jets. There is presently a big demand for the more efficient smaller passenger jets.
What sort of plane is it? What does it compete with?
OK... found it. Looks like it competes with the 737?
Pictures I just saw look pretty good. Nice looking plane.
But Russian union folks did.
PAX capacity is closer to a 737-200, but not later 737s. It is more of a competitor with the Embraer E-Jets or the 717/DC-9 family of aircraft.
Intended to compete in the small Regional jet market - 100 seats or smaller. It’s much smaller than the current 737s.
Boeing has been involved in the development - initially it was more of a Boeing project to compete with the Brazilian and Canadian planes that own that market.
Ah, I see. The Embraer, Bombardier and such.
Well, I’ll give ‘em props for building a nice looking plane. Good luck to them.
Definitely built to compete with the RJ’s.
I noticed that it’s fly-by-wire with side-stick-controllers ala Air Bus which makes it quite a bit more technologically advanced than a typical RJ.
I also noticed the lack of winglets that decrease induced drag associated with swept wing design and increase fuel economy by a few percentage points.
I agree, it does not look like some of the clunky stuff built during the Soviet era.
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