First Superjet Delivered to Armavia
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft delivered the first Superjet 100–S/N 95007–to Armenian airline Armavia today during a ceremony held at Yerevan Zvartnots Internationa
Photo: Giacomo Perfetto
Photo: Giacomo Perfetto

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft delivered the first Superjet 100–S/N 95007–to Armenian airline Armavia today during a ceremony held at Yerevan Zvartnots International Airport. At the ceremony, the participants named the aircraft after the USSR’s first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. Authorities assigned it tail number EK95015.

Armavia plans to deploy the airplane on services to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi and Ukraine. The airline operates 102 regular weekly flights to and within 20 countries with a fleet of three Airbus A320s, three A319, one Bombardier CRJ200, an Ilyushin Il-86 and a Yakovlev Yak-42.