Certification flights of the partially import-substituted MC-21 aircraft will begin on schedule — in mid-May of this year. This was announced by Vasily Prutkovsky, Managing Director of Yakovlev Company of the United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec.
Yesterday was the first flight. In mid-May, it will fly to Zhukovsky to our main flight station, and certification flights will begin. In accordance with the schedule that was approved.
The MC-21 aircraft successfully took to the skies from the airfield of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of Yakovlev Company on April 29. The flight lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes, during which the aircraft reached a speed of 580 km/h and an altitude of 3,000 meters. Instead of the planned 50 minutes, the plane spent almost half an hour longer in the sky, but withstood the test of an unforeseen situation.
The aircraft received a Russian complex of onboard radio-electronic equipment, a domestic auxiliary power unit, lighting equipment and aircraft system control panels. All domestic components are included in the power supply system, hydraulic system and chassis.
MC-21 is a new generation medium-range passenger aircraft created on the basis of the latest developments and focused on the most popular segment of the passenger transportation market.
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