Russian authorities plan to increase funding for the production of MC-21 aircraft family [medium-haul narrow-body passenger aircraft - editor's note www1.ru] by 1.14 billion rubles in 2024. Such data is provided in the materials to the draft federal budget for 2024-2026.
In addition, more than 625 million rubles will be allocated to the MC-21 program in 2025, and almost 620 million rubles in 2026. The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, founded in 2006) will receive 5.2 billion rubles for civil aviation projects above the planned volume, another 1.6 billion rubles in 2025 and almost 450 million rubles in 2026.
It is noted that from 2024 to 2026, the Russian authorities will direct more than 800 billion rubles to space activities. In particular, funding will amount to about 286 billion rubles in 2024, almost 272 billion rubles in 2025, and just over 258 billion rubles in 2026. Budgetary appropriations, will go to investment projects of enterprises in the missile and space industry, as well as to support the work of Roscosmos corporation.
The developer of the passenger MC-21 is the Yakovlev corporation, the aircraft is assembled at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant. The first flight of the MC-21 took place in the spring of 2017. The aircraft was presented at the MAKS air show in Zhukovsky near Moscow in 2019. It is expected that the MC-21 will carry out domestic and international flights. The beginning of the aircraft operation is scheduled for 2025.
In July www1.ru published photos of the new Russian transcontinental aircraft IL-96-400M. The passenger liner is currently undergoing trials.