Russian Civil Aviation: News #5

The development of the UTS-800 aircraft is approaching the stage of flight tests
16.11.2022,

The training complex for initial training of pilots UTS-800, which is being developed by the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA), is approaching the stage of flight tests. About this at the forum "Cities of Russia 2030: Challenges and Actions 2:0"informedGeneral Director of the special economic zone "Titanium Valley", where the production sites of the plant are located, Andrey Antipov

“There is a large resident - the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, which produces aircraft, now it is the L-410, now it has flown, there were more than 30 sorties, the nine-seat Baikal aircraft, which is replacing the An-2. The next aircraft is Ladoga with 44 seats. Now it is practically approaching the flight tests of the UTS-800,” Antipov said.

According to him, a new branch of aircraft production has appeared in the Sverdlovsk region since 2017 with the start of production of the L-410 aircraft. For this, a specialized complex was built. Later, an aircraft manufacturing cluster began to form on the territory of the Titanium Valley. Currently, the Aviator technopark is operating, where production facilities are being built around the anchor resident.

“We are gathering around pickers who produce navigational equipment. We plan to place small companies in this technopark, which will occupy from 200 to 3.5 thousand square meters. m,” he said.

In July 2021, the director of the Aircraft division of the UZGA, Evgeny Sergeev, reported that the plant would assemble the first flight copy of the new UTS-800 training aircraft in December 2021. In August last year, it was planned to carry out a mock assembly.

Rodion_Romanovic wrote:
... I am sure they are now able (or will be next year) to do a fully russian version of it, but how do they manage with IP now that Let is not anymore owned by a Russian firm?
Just do chinese style(or polish stile, with their own modernised version of the An-28, which is in the same niche) and just change the name (it is anyway a local aircraft that is more needed for Russia and not for export)?

GarryB wrote:So the Russian company that is making rip off foreign planes finished the design of a Russian engine to make their own trainer aircraft to stiff Yak over the Yak-152... classy...

So the result is probably the Yak-152 is dead and Russian designed planes competing in the roles for light transports will also get screwed and beaten by foreign designs Russias ownership of their designs are not really clear about.

How can that be a good thing?

News: Boeing’s decision to suspend the launch of any new airplane until the middle of the next decade means innovation of any kind from any company is largely dead for the next decade.

Airbus won’t launch a new airplane either, now that Boeing has stood down, says its former chief strategic officer, Kiran Rao. Rao is now an advisor to airlines and lessors. He had been with Airbus for 25 years in sales and product strategy.

While Boeing’s decision to suspend new airplane development casts a dark cloud over its strategic future, Airbus now is going to rest on its own status quo, Rao said.

Summary:

Airbus engineers will atrophy.
Boeing was “one step away from checkmate” against Airbus in 2005-2006 and made a big mistake not taking up the opportunity.
GE and Safran don’t want to innovate. Pratt & Whitney can’t do much beyond today.
Boeing should have launched the NMA. It would have beaten the A321XLR.
The NMA would have created a new market.

 The first flight of the second prototype Il-114-300 aircraft is scheduled for the end of December 2022, 11.19.2022.

Lukhovitsky Aircraft Plant named after P.A. Voronina will sign an agreement for the production of 19 Il-114-300 aircraft. About itdeclaredHead of the Lukhovitsy urban district Sergei Timokhin during a working meeting on November 18 with Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov. He also said that flight tests of the first Il-114-300 aircraft assembled in Lukhovitsy are scheduled to begin at the end of December this year.

“Our key city-forming enterprise LAZ im. P.A. Voronina plans to conclude an agreement for the production of new 19 Il-114-300 turboprop civil aircraft in the next 3-4 years. And on December 26 of this year, the first flight tests of these machines should begin, ”said Sergey Timokhin.

“We visited it with you at the end of April. The Il-114-300 project was then at the stage of assembly and refinement, and it is very pleasant that tests of this machine will begin soon, ”said Andrey Vorobyov.

In accordance with the comprehensive program for the development of the aviation industry, by 2030 the Lukhovitsk Aviation Plant is to produce 70 Il-114-300 aircraft, the first deliveries will begin with two aircraft in 2024, in 2025 it is necessary to build eight aircraft and then 12 aircraft annually.

In July 2021, as part of the MAKS air show, the State Transport Leasing Company, PJSC Il and Avrora Airlines signed an agreement of intent to lease 19 Il-114-300 aircraft. At the beginning of September 2022, the head of STLC Evgeny Dietrich announced that by 2026 it is planned to supply Aurora Airlines with modern domestic aircraft, including models such as SSJ100 NEW, Il-114-300. “Until the end of 2022, we plan to conclude all leasing contracts with Aurora for the supply of aircraft,” he said at the WEF-2022 in Vladivostok on September 7.

Thus, the head of Lukhovits, Sergei Timonin, confirmed the implementation of preliminary agreements on the supply of 19 Il-114-300 aircraft on lease to the single Far Eastern airline Aurora, signed at MAKS-2021 . The first two vehicles will most likely be handed over to the Far Eastern carrier in 2024.

The first prototype Il-114-300 took off on December 16, 2020. This board was assembled at the production site of PJSC "Il" in Zhukovsky on the basis of the aircraft s/n 01-08 from the backlog of the Tashkent aircraft plant (TAPOiCH) from 1994. The unfinished car was stored for a long time at the LII. M. Gromova. The aircraft is equipped with a TV7-117ST-01 turboprop engine, a similar type of engine was installed on the Il-112V light military transport aircraft, after the crash of which in August 2021 flight tests of the Il-114-300 were suspended.

In parallel, since 2020, the Lukhovitsky Aviation Plant has been assembling the second experimental Il-114-300 (s/n 01-10). It is this machine, according to Sergei Timokhin, that should take off on December 26, 2022, ground tests continue on the 01-08 aircraft.

In early February of this year, the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko , reported that it was planned to complete the certification tests of the Il-114-300 in 2022, and in March 2023 the aircraft should receive an airworthiness certificate. However, after the start of the NWO and the EU and US sanctions imposed on Russian civil aviation, the plans were forced to change, and the certification of the Il-114-300 was postponed until the end of 2023. This was announced on July 15 this year by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, speaking in the State Duma. At the same time, given the plans for the first deliveries of the IL-114-300 in 2024, the certification of the machine may be postponed for another year.

As part of the approved scheme of cooperation between UAC enterprises, the center section, wing consoles with mechanization, tail surfaces and engine nacelles for the Il-114-300 are manufactured at VASO in Voronezh, and fuselage panels, hatches and doors are manufactured by Ulyanovsk Aviastar. The assembly of the fuselage compartments from Ulyanovsk panels is carried out by the Nizhny Novgorod aircraft building plant Sokol,clarifiedin the editorial office of the Vzlyot magazine.

"Today we can say with confidence that the professional skills and qualifications of VASO engineers and workers made it possible to fully master the production of units for the Il-114-300,” says Yury Shestakov, head of the VASO unit assembly production.

Nearly 100% of the parts for assembling the empennage and wing units of these aircraft, including composite ones, are manufactured in the workshops of the Voronezh Aviation Plant. In addition, the specialists developed and manufactured the original IL-114-300 sliding wing and keel stocks, which made their assembly more efficient. In general, VASO manufactures more than 40% of the airframe units of the new regional aircraft, told in the UAC.

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