One of the key stages in the certification of the import-substituted Superjet 100 (SJ-100) short-haul airliner with Russian PD-8 engines has been successfully completed. The aircraft registered as RA-97021 carried out a flight along civil air routes from Zhukovsky to Ufa and back, covering about 2,500 kilometers in 3.5 hours of flight time. Specialists paid particular attention to the execution of flight modes over the area of the settlement of Elkibayevo — from 10:15 to 11:30 UTC.
At the same time, work is continuing on the transition from the Franco-Russian SaM146 engines to the fully domestic PD-8. As Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Gennady Abramenkov reported, the Ministry of Industry and Trade confirms the technical feasibility of such re-engining, but it has not yet been determined at whose expense the modernization work will be carried out — by the state, the manufacturer, or the operators.
Let us recall that, according to data from the analytical resource "Letaem vmeste," the certification process for the SJ-100 with PD-8 engines is accelerating significantly: in December 2025, three experimental aircraft took to the air simultaneously, and the overall level of readiness for completion of certification reached 92%.
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