Russian Aviation – Russia has built seven of the 108 planned airliners – UNIAN
Many remote areas of the Russian Federation are completely dependent on air traffic.
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the Russian UAC (United Aircraft Corporation) built only seven operational airliners, while it planned to build 108. The BBC Russian Service reports this.
“One of the largest technological reforms of the entire aviation industry in the history of world aviation, with its transfer to national production, was on the verge of failure,” the publication writes.
All seven passenger planes that Russia has built since the invasion began are SuperJet 100 airliners, which were built from pre-war modifications. In addition to them, the Russians built two more prototypes – Il-96-400M and Il-114. They are used for…
