The aircraft is fitted with Russian systems and equipment, including the PD-8 engines

Photo: United Aircraft Corporation

Import-substituted SJ-100 No. 97004 built using commercial technologies by the Manufacturing Center of Yakovlev’s Regional Aircraft Branch (FRS) (included in UAC, Rostec State Corporation) rose into the air from the factory airfield in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The aircraft is fitted with Russian systems and equipment, including UEC’s PD-8 engines.

“The flight was made by the first aircraft built using commercial technologies. Certification process is still underway, but the aircraft was made at a mass manufacturing facility in a target conceptual design that is planned for supply to customers. It should be pointed out that the aircraft received a modified, improved body and dozens of new systems and equipment instead of the foreign ones. As many as 24 commercial aircraft are currently at the manufacturing stage in various degrees of completion. This proves that Russia has been and remains an aircraft-building power capable of creating modern aircraft either with international cooperation or without participation of foreign partners,” commented on Rostec’s representatives.

The groundwork was done in the SJ-100 manufacturing process for making mass-produce aircraft, which will be supplied after completion of the certification test and approval by the Federal Air Transport Agency. 

The SJ-100 is a regional narrow-body jet for 100 seats. Within the import substitution program, the aircraft was equipped with Russian engines, avionics, landing gear, auxiliary propulsion unit, control, power supply, air conditioning and fire-fighting systems, and passenger cabin design.