The Russian airline S7 Group will master the production of spare parts for operated foreign aircraft through reverse engineering (the study of a finished device and technical documentation in order to understand the principle of its operation - editor's note www1.ru), said Evgeny Elin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the carrier, during his speech at the "Russian Industrialist" forum.
S7 has already organized a production department and bought several factories.
Our company employs about 12 thousand people, including 1000 pilots and another 3.5 thousand people are engineers. Therefore, we consider ourselves an engineering company
Currently, the airline's fleet includes only imported aircraft: 63 Airbus A320/321, 19 Boeing 737-800 and 17 Embraer ERJ170. At the same time, S7 is not yet able to update its fleet with Russian MC-21 aircraft, since almost all orders for them have been placed by Aeroflot. The largest domestic carrier will receive 210 MC-21 aircraft by 2030, which is 80% of the planned production volume.
Earlier it was reported that MC-21 has been maximally import-substituted. The passenger aircraft received a new engine and 35 systems of Russian production.
