Aircraft
OAK gets OK to build Il-96
Russia’s new airframing consortium OAK has won government approval to continue limited production of widebody airliners.

Russia’s new airframing consortium OAK has won government approval to continue limited production of widebody airliners. This covers assembly of 15 Ilyushin Il-96s in the 2008 to 2012 time frame, allowing the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO) to maintain annual production rates of three aircraft. The government approval is necessary for Ilyushin’s leasing group, and airline customers to have access to low-cost state-backed financing.

“We will maintain low rate Il-96 production for awhile,” said OAK president Aleksei Fedorov, “although we understand that this type loses out somewhat to modern Boeings and Airbuses on fuel burn and operational economics.”

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