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The Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared a number of amendments to the State Programme of the Russian Federation "Development of the Aviation Industry"; they are posted on the Federal Portal of Draft Regulatory Legal Acts. The document is now at the stage of anti-corruption expertise. In 2024-2030, the Russian civil aviation should receive 990 aircraft.
According to the updated programme, in 2024-2030, the aviation industry is to supply 990 aircraft for the needs of civil aviation, including:
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142 units of SSJ-NEW;
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270 units of MS-21;
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51 units of IL-114-300;
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113 units of Tu-214;
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12 units of Il-96-300;
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105 units of Ladoga (TVRS-44);
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158 units of "Osvey" (LMS-192);
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139 units of Baikal (LMS-901).
More than half of the announced number (588) are to be produced by Rostec - its facilities produce the Superjet, MS-21, Tu-214, Il-96-300 and Il-114-300.
The Ural Civil Aviation Plant is the largest enterprise not related to Rostec. It should produce Ladogs (to replace the An-24) and Baikals (to replace the An-2).
Thus, by 2030, the fleets of the largest Russian air carriers should have at least 50% of Russian-made aircraft and 90% of domestic helicopters.
This is the third version of the state programme, and amendments are made as the aviation industry's plans change. Russia's aircraft industry is in a harsh environment of virtually closed imports.
Sanctions have hampered the development of the MS-21 aircraft. "In 2019, sanctions were imposed on the 'black wing', that is, the composite wing for the MS-21, at that time we had the technology, but we bought the materials. In two years we created our materials, produced and tested the wing. Then, in 2022, total sanctions were imposed on all imported components for MS-21, and now they are unavailable. However, Russia has already created its own PD-14 aircraft engine, its own "black wing" and we have all the main components for the MS-21," says the editor-in-chief of the Avia.ru portal.
At the moment it is necessary to develop related components for aircraft production. For the MS-21 project, Russian companies are the developers of all systems, but they were initially allowed to use imported components.
It is also worth recalling that in May 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced a series of tenders for the development of microelectronics.
In Russia, microelectronics are produced mainly for defence purposes for space and aviation, but these are somewhat different components, they have very high requirements, production is small-scale, so they are expensive, but they are in Russia.
The main problem of the aviation industry is the shortage of personnel, which cannot be solved quickly, and personnel training will take at least 10 years.
A separate draft programme for the development of the aviation industry includes the creation of a competitive aviation industry in the Far East and the North Caucasus.
Now in the Far East the aviation industry is represented in 4 subjects of the Russian Federation (Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, Zabaikalsky Krai and the Republic of Buryatia). In the North Caucasus, 4 aircraft plants operate in 2 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessia).
The programme speaks of the need to:
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ensure full utilisation of aviation plants in the Far East and the North Caucasus,
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to modernise these plants with the help of subsidies;
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to promote to domestic and foreign markets the products manufactured by the aviation industry enterprises in the territories of the Far Eastern Federal District and the North Caucasus Federal District.
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Source: MASHNEWS