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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...

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company won a $300 million order from Orient Thai for 12 of Russia’s first major passenger planes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass reported, citing the Thailand-based airline. Sukhoi agreed to deliver 12 of the mid-range Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliners before 2014, the news service reported from Bangkok. Orient Thai plans to use the aircraft on domestic flights, gradually replacing its current fleet, the report said, citing Orient Thai chairman Kajit Habanananda. The airline may hire Sukhoi to maintain the fleet, he said. Delivery of the first two planes is planned for November next year,...

Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Indonesia's regional carrier Kartika Airlines on Monday inked a $951 contract for the delivery of 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100s. The contract is a solid order for 30 airplanes to be shipped between 2012 and 2015. Superjet-100 is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by Sukhoi in cooperation with U.S. and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.

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...

Engines for Russia's new Superjet-100 airliner have failed to receive certification as they have several significant flaws, a business daily said on Tuesday. The Superjet-100 project is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by the Sukhoi aircraft maker in cooperation with the US and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell. Russian deputy industry and trade minister Denis Manturov, who heads the commission to monitor Superjet's production, prepared a report unveiling the current problems and obstacles in the way of certification, the paper said.

SaM-146 Engine Runs Successfully at Sukhoi Superjet-100 New aircraft engines, SaM-146, have successfully run at the first Sukhoi Superjet-100, RIA Novosti reported Thursday with reference to a representative of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft. “New aircraft engines, SaM-146s, have been successfully started at Superjet-100 under the program of preparing a new regional jet of Russia for its first flight,” said the company’s representative attending the Singapore Air Show. Earlier, SaM-146 passed the first testing stage in the flying laboratory of Il-76LL. Those tests confirmed correspondence to design specification to the extent required for the first flight. The engine also passed the race...

Russia eyes new aviation glory with Superjet (Reuters) 23 September 2007 PARIS - Russia will seek a boost for President Vladimir Putin’s bid to revive its once mighty aviation industry this week, by rolling out its first modern commercial airliner for the global market—the Superjet. Built by the former Soviet Union’s largest warplane maker Sukhoi, whose Su-27 fighter family was designed for combat with Boeing’s F-15 Eagle, the civil Superjet is a 78 to 98 seat regional airliner developed in co-operation with its old Cold War foe. The new civil plane will be unveiled at a Sukhoi military factory at...