Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has officially announced the start of implementation of joint intentions to create a modern wide-body aircraft. The establishment of the Russian-Chinese long-haul passenger Airbus will cost approximately $ 8 billion.

Dmitry Rogozin stressed that the agreement on the technical study of the project of the Russian-Chinese liner will be signed in early October of this year. "We are at the beginning of October will be on the lines of the United aircraft company to enter the signed technical collaboration with Chinese colleagues on long-haul wide-body passenger aircraft," said Russian Deputy Prime Minister.

With all of this, the Vice Prime Minister stressed that the market in China is quite large, and this will provide the project profitability, informs NTV. Note that in June of this year, Deputy Minister of industry and trade of the Russian Federation Yury Slyusar said that the establishment of the Russian-Chinese long-haul passenger Airbus will be limited to approximately $ 8 billion.

Recall that previously the President of the United aircraft company Mikhail Pogosyan and Chairman of the Board of supervisors of the Chinese company COMAC Jin Scanlon signed in Shanghai a Memorandum of cooperation for development of promising aircraft. It is expected that the liner may take a significant share of domestic and Chinese markets air transportation, and still get wide distribution in the world.

Note that in addition to the implementation of the Russian-Chinese partnership, Russia inter alia envisages the creation of a personal medium-haul domestic MC-21-300. Similar news may exercise their 1st flight in early April 2016. Rogozin said that already there are more than 150 hard orders for the aircraft, of which Aeroflot has ordered 50 MS-21-300 capacity of 180 passengers each, informs "Interfax". From 2018, according to the Vice Prime Minister, it is planned to reach up to 50 aircraft per year.

According to the statement by Russian Deputy Prime Minister, at the moment of the Irkutsk aviation plant has produced 1st fuselage newest aircraft, which will be in use under the name Yak-242. 4 on account of the assembled aircraft MS-21 will be equipped with Russian engines. Note that the MC-21 is one of the priorities of the Federal target program of development of civil aviation.
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