MC-21 Hasn't Taken Off Yet, But a 10 Billion Ruble Hangar is Already Being Built

A new hangar complex will be built in the Sverdlovsk region, where domestic MC-21 passenger aircraft will be serviced. It will cost 10 billion rubles, said the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Denis Pasler.

According to him, the Ural Airlines airline will take part in the project.

The area of the new complex will be about 15 thousand m², of which 8 thousand will be occupied by the main hangar, and 6 - warehouses for storing equipment and spare parts.

In the future, it is also planned to place a simulator for MC-21 pilots in the Urals. Pilots will be trained there for all airlines in the country.

The head of the Rostec State Corporation, Sergey Chemezov, noted that the certification of the MC-21 will be completed at the end of 2026, after which two serial aircraft will be launched into production. When the conveyor production of aircraft will be established is unknown.

At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Anton Alikhanov, stated that the import-substituted version of the MC-21-310 will take to the air as early as October 2025. There is exactly one week left until the end of this period.

Earlier www1.ru reported that the Rostec commission with Serdyukov and UAC raided the production of the PD-8 engine.

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