«You shouldn't expect hundreds of flight hours»: aviation expert cooled the ardor from expectations of launching the MC-21 and SJ-100 into series production

Difficulties may arise at the initial stage of operation

The head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, announced the serial production of Russian passenger aircraft MC-21 and SJ-100 in 2026. Oleg Panteleev, executive director of the Aviaport agency, said that at the first stage of operation, the aircraft will still have to get rid of "childhood diseases".

According to him, the main argument in favor of an optimistic scenario is the participation of partially import-substituted samples of aircraft in certification tests. This means that the main part of the technical risks has already been removed during factory tests.

All aircraft have a stage of eliminating "childhood diseases". Boeng-737MAX even had to temporarily suspend flights to eliminate identified technical shortcomings. We can only hope that this will not happen with our equipment. But to assume that the aircraft will immediately fly several hundred hours a month is too optimistic.
Oleg Panteleev, aviation expert

Earlier www1.ru reported that the rate of supply of Su-57 fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces has increased.

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