Russian Authorities Certify Irkut MC-21 Narrowbody Airliner

MC-21
A MC-21 serial aircraft with the Russian-made composite wing made its first flight on Dec. 25, 2021.
Credit: UAC
The Russian government kept its promise to finish certification of the MC-21-300, the country’s first narrowbody commercial airliner designed from scratch in the post-Soviet era, in 2021. The country’s Federal Air Transport Agency issued a type certificate for the aircraft on Dec. 28, 2021. The new...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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