Tupolev engineers have lifted into the air, after restoring airworthiness, a Tu-214 aircraft, designated as a "flying laboratory" for testing import-substituted parts of all Tu-214s. It will be painted and completely replace imported components, components and systems with domestic ones. The new "stuffing" will be tested on it until the end of the year.
It is noted that the aircraft will also be used "for modernization and further development of the Tu-214 platform". Its first flight was successful.
The flight lasted 1.5 hours, including at an altitude of 10 thousand meters. The necessary checks of all systems and on-board equipment were carried out. According to the crew, the flight proceeded normally, the systems and equipment worked without any remarks.
Earlier, Russian aircraft manufacturers had already started flight tests of one of the copies of the import-substituted SJ-100 airliner before its certification. Everything in it is Russian, except for the engine.
To speed up the certification program, the first prototype aircraft is flying with Franco-Russian SaM-146 engines. The other two SJ-100 models will be completely domestic. They will take to the air and join the tests when the PD-8 engine is approved for flight.
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