Today at the 'Innoprom-2023' exhibition, the Chairman of the State Military Industrial Committee (SMIC) of Belarus Dmitry Pantus, and the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Oleg Bocharov, signed a comprehensive inter-agency program for cooperation in the field of aircraft construction. Within the framework of this program, the parties intend to create a twin-engine aircraft.

«Principle agreements have been reached on the joint development and organization in the Republic of Belarus of serial production of a twin-engine 19-seat aircraft. The heads of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant and the 558 Aviation Repair Plant signed an action plan to implement this project», - reported in SMIC.

Previously, UZGA expressed a desire to establish the production of a new regional 19-seat aircraft. It was said then that it will have non-retractable landing gear and VK-800 engines.