Four MS-21 aircraft will remain at the flight test station until the end of the year

Four MC-21 aircraft will be at the flight test station until the end of the year. In September, a contract was signed for the supply of 90 MS-21 aircraft to Aeroflot; deliveries are expected in 2029–2032.

Aeroflot will also receive 18 MC-21s in 2027–2028 under the first contract.

IRKUTSK, September 28 – RIA Novosti. Four MS-21 aircraft will remain at the flight test station until the end, said Andrey Soynov, general director of the branch of Yakovlev PJSC - the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (part of the UAC state corporation Rostec).

“And in October we are also transferring the fourth aircraft to the flight test station for ground tests. And, accordingly, I repeat once again, by the end of the year our result is that four aircraft will be in varying degrees at the flight test station and then we will wait for the completion of certification procedures, paperwork, after which it will be possible to transfer the aircraft to customers,” Soynov told reporters.

In September, the largest contract in the history of Russian civil aviation was signed in Moscow for the supply of 90 MS-21 aircraft to Aeroflot; deliveries are expected in 2029-2032. In addition, Aeroflot will receive 18 MS-21s in 2027-2028 under the first contract.