Second Youth: Expert Calls for Resumption of Tu-334SM Production, but with PD-8 Engines

The aviation industry in Russia may revive the production of the Tu-334SM short-range passenger aircraft, which once lost the competition to the Superjet. Expert Sergei Marzhetsky believes that the aircraft can be returned to the sky thanks to the new PD-8 engines.

Second Youth

According to him, the "second youth" of the Tu-214 medium-range airliner produced by the Kazan Aviation Plant also increases the economic feasibility of reviving the Tu-334.

The Union State Will Help

Marzhetsky clarified that the issue of a shortage of professional personnel and production facilities for deploying the modernized Tu-334SM2 can be resolved by resorting to cooperation within the framework of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

About the Tu-334 Aircraft

The airliner was developed in the 1990s. The Tu-334 is a twin-engine turbofan aircraft with engines in the tail section of the fuselage. It was planned that the aircraft would replace the noticeably outdated Tu-134 and Tu-154 on domestic airlines, which were already gradually being decommissioned. But the Tu-334 did not go into mass production, and the project was frozen.

• Main characteristics of Tu-334:

• Crew - 3 people

• Capacity - 102 passengers

• Maximum take-off weight - 47,900 kg

• Maximum flight range - 3150 km

• Cruising speed - 820 km/h

• Practical ceiling - 11,100 m

Earlierwww1.ru reported thatRostec was instructed to reduce the cost of the MS-21 and SJ-100, advantages over Boeing and Airbus are needed.

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