Russian Civil Aviation: News #5

I am curious to know who will be now buying Let L410, if they lose all of the russian world (main customer base).

Rodion_Romanovic wrote:Well, after the news from the other day it was to be expected.
I am curious to know who will be now buying Let L410, if they lose all of the russian world (main customer base).

Furthermore now Africa, another potential market, is it mainly in Russian and Chinese hands.

And there are already other western alternatives, like the Dornier 228 or the Twin otter, plus also Brazilian planes (embraer 110 plus a new one coming next year) and the polish copy/ modernisation of the An-28.

Basically there is market for a new russian model, but Czech producers will have to face competition in their possible markets from Germany/India (Do-228 NG), Canada (twin otter), Poland (M-28) and Brasil/ Portugal...

lancelot wrote:
Much like the case with Russia's PD-14, the CJ-1000A is supposed to be the first of a family of engines. They are also working on equivalents of PD-8 (CJ-500), PD-35 (CJ-2000).

The Chinese will not be relying on Western component suppliers for civil aviation forever.

flamming_python wrote:
The Czech economy is subsidised by the EU anyway. They pay the bills, and they call the tunes. A factory going out of business here or there is chump change.

I believe there's a monument to the sex worker for the Western sex-tourist in Prague.
Which just says it all really. And that's pretty much the policy of the country itself, sell your UN vote and foreign policy and Soviet-era stocks of weapons and your national dignity for money from Europe.
The Ukraine wanted the same deal, only in addition to all that they also had to Nazify and militarize their society and build up for a new blitzkrieg against the Donbass and then the Crimea, and that's where the problem occured.

Transportation to hard-to-reach areas on TVS-2MS aircraft will resume in the Tomsk Region
05/24/2023
Department of Transport of the Tomsk Region

The Tomsk aircraft building company Sibaerocraft has ordered a batch of TVS-2MS aircraft worth 145 million rubles. each with the possibility of expanding the contract for the resumption of intra-regional transportation in the Tomsk region. Rusaviaprom LLC is the executor of the contract, and Siberian Light Aviation may become the operator. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the director of Sibaerocraft LLC Ruslan Moiseev.

Earlier, in April, the Department of Transport, Road Activities and Communications of the Tomsk Region announced its intention to restore air travel to remote areas of the region from June 1 until the end of 2023. We are talking about flights from Tomsk to the city of Kedrovy, as well as the villages of Kargasok and Novy Vasyugan in the Kargasoksky district. Now flights to these settlements are not performed, there is also no bus service. Kedrovy and Novy Vasyugan are located in a remote area among the Vasyugan swamps, the only way to get to them is by winter roads or all-terrain vehicles.

“Our company has ordered four TVS-2MS aircraft, one aircraft is already in Tomsk, and you saw it today. It was assembled in Novosibirsk, but flight tests will be held at our site in Beryozkino. These aircraft will revive regional aviation in the Tomsk region and in the West Siberian region,” Ruslan Moiseev told reporters.

The planes were produced by the Novosibirsk company Rusaviaprom. According to Aleksey Kryukov, General Director of the company, the first aircraft is being prepared for testing, in the future the contract may be expanded to meet the needs of the region to provide the entire air network up to 10-12 aircraft. He clarified that this is not the whole party, there will be an expansion.

“The approximate need to close the entire route network of Kolpashevo, Novy Vasyugan, Kedrovy, Kargasok is about 10-12 aircraft. At the moment, the first aircraft is being prepared for testing. We hope that by the end of June it will receive a certificate of airworthiness,” Kryukov said, adding that the first four aircraft will be delivered by November, subsequent aircraft will be produced in the amount of 3-4 per year, depending on the needs of the customer.

At the same time, different airlines are considered as an operator, in particular, a new company with regional participation can be created, or Siberian Light Aviation, which previously flew in the region, can fly aircraft.

For the operation of aircraft, an operator is needed - an airline that will use these aircraft. We are considering attracting previously flying companies or creating a commercial operator, or following the example of Magadan, where a local airline has been created for such aircraft with the participation of the Ministry of Transport, which covers the region's need for transportation,” Alexey Kryukov explained.

According to him, the cost of one aircraft is 145 million rubles. Flight range - 1 thousand km, passenger capacity - 12 people.

In turn, Andrey Bogdanov, co-owner of the Siberian Light Aviation airline and adviser to the CEO, told reporters that the company is working on resuming flights within the region on TVS-2MS.

“We are discussing the issue with the administration of the Tomsk region on the start of operation of TVS-2MS aircraft, it will be Aeroservice LLC, a subsidiary of the SiLA airline. There are a number of formalities for this aircraft to be able to fly on civil airlines. We are negotiating with the Department of Transport. It takes some time to register the aircraft, to obtain a certificate of certification, airworthiness. We are planning to resume the destinations where "SiLA" flew, as well as to Parabel. The sites are maintained in working condition, you can start,” Bogdanov said.

In addition, Ruslan Moiseev said that Sibaerocraft plans to develop an aviation site in the village of Beryozkino near Tomsk. In particular, next year it is planned to concrete a 900-meter unpaved runway, and in the future it will be extended to 1,200 meters. Now the site is equipped with lighting equipment - it can receive flights around the clock. He did not name the exact amount of investment in the modernization of the site, noting that "we are talking about hundreds of millions of rubles."

He also said that the transfer of the production of TVS-2MS aircraft from the Novosibirsk site of Rusaviaprom to Tomsk or its expansion is being discussed. “Now there are meetings and discussions with the Rusaviaprom plant and the authorities about the possible transfer of this enterprise or its expansion to the territory of the Tomsk region. But so far no decisions have been made, as conditions must be created for Rusaviaprom to start assembling TVS-2MS aircraft in the Tomsk Region and develop our aviation cluster. We look forward to subsequent meetings with the governor with the adoption of decisions and a road map,” Moiseev added.