The cost of the Russian LMS-901 "Baikal" aircraft turned out to be unaffordable for small airlines, for whom it was cheaper and more practical to purchase an An-2. This was reported by the head of one of the carriers.
For comparison, two An-2s in flying condition were put up for sale in Belarus. The starting price of the first aircraft was 1.495 million rubles, the second - 1.238 million rubles.
Upon learning the price of the "golden" "Baikal" aircraft, one of the airline executives said in exasperation that for such a sum he would have bought almost two dozen An-2s that had undergone major overhaul and would have had no worries. He would have transported everything: barrels, boxes, people. If necessary, cows and deer. Such cargo cannot be transported on the "Baikal".
In the summer of 2025, Leonid Luzgin, then CEO of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, stated that the cost of the "Baikal" would start from 220 million rubles. "Pervyy Tekhnicheskiy" thoroughly analyzed how the price of the aircraft changed over time.
