On 2 of April 2014 as part of Sukhoi design bureau 75-th birthday celebration, Atlas Jet Sukhoi Superjet 100 presentation took place in Zhukovsky, the aircraft will become part of Moscow carrier Center-South fleet and will be operated for Atlas Jet. The peculiarities of SSJ100 MSN 95015 livery are the corporate colors of new Customer and the Sukhoi symbolics.
Leading aircraft developer and manufacturer, design bureau Sukhoi celebrates its 75-th birthday in July 2014. On 29 of July 1939 design bureau was founded, and Pavel Sukhoi was appointed Chief Engineer.
On the threshold of Sukhoi jubilee celebration it was decided to give the aircraft the name of Sergey Melnikov, Hero of Russia.
Sergey Melnikov took part in design and development of new aircraft and also performed flight tests of Su-17, Su-24, Su-25, Su-27, Su-30, Su-34, Su-35, Su-33.
Pavel Sukhois work had huge impact over Russian aircraft industry. Every year design bureau Sukhoi strengthens its leading positions as leading developer and manufacturer of both military and civil aircraft.
Today Su aircraft and their modifications are more than 60% of frontline Russian Air Force and also the Su fighters are in the armies of more than 30 countries worldwide and are delivered to South-East Asia, Latin America and Middle East. More than 100 aircraft types were created and more than 60 of them were in serial production. Total number of produced aircraft surpasses 10000. More than 50 world records were made on Su fighters.
In 2000 Sukhoi Company established JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft aimed at creation civil aircraft. Design bureau Sukhoi played important role in first modern Russian civil aircraft RRJ-95 (Sukhoi Superjet 100) creation.
SSJ100 (MSN 95015) is second aircraft of this type in the fleet of Center-South. On 21 of March 2014 first SSJ100 (MSN 95012) was delivered to the Customer and the very next day it started to perform charter flights, the first took NASA delegation to Baikonur.
SSJ100 were delivered to first Customers in 2011. Today regional jet Sukhoi Superjet 100 is present in fleet of 5 Russian carriers such as Aeroflot, Yakutia, Moskovia, Gazprom Avia and Center-South and in 3 foreign carriers Interjet (Mexico), Sky Aviation (Indonesia) and Lao Central (Laos). SSJ100 performed more 27 000 commercial flights and more 40 000 flight hours.
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Today a rental agreement for three Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft was signed between the Russian airline Red Wings and Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company.
The aircraft wil...
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2014/05/30 | AVIATION WORLD NEWS
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2014/02/04 | AVIATION WORLD NEWS
The fifth Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed in Mexico on February 2, 2014 to join Interjet SSJ100 fleet.
The aircraft (MNS 95034) was rolled out from SuperJet Internationa...
