Certification tests of three types of new civilian aircraft are actively underway in Russia. The Tekhnosfera Rossiya publication shared the details.
According to the source, the Il-114-300, MC-21-310, and the import-substituted SJ-100 took to the skies a total of 39 times between the second half of November and the first week of December.
All three types of aircraft are currently based at the Zhukovsky airfield in the Moscow region.
The flights are quite lengthy, ranging from 3 to 6 hours and 30 minutes. One of the aircraft flew to the Arctic regions of Russia and, due to a strong tailwind, even became a "record holder," reaching a maximum speed at an altitude of 1035 km/h.
Andrey Patrakov, a board member of the Association of Small Aviation Enterprises (MalaP) and founder of the RunAvia flight safety and certification service, noted in an interview with Perviy Technicheskiy that the main technological problem of Russian civil aviation is the lack of its own TCAS collision avoidance system. Without it, the aircraft cannot obtain permission for commercial flights.
