Sukhoi Civil Aircraft delivered the first Superjet 100–S/N 95007–to Armenian airline Armavia on April 19 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. “Delivery of the first production aircraft is the key milestone of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 project,” said Mikhail Pogosyan, president of United Aircraft and general director of Sukhoi Holding. “The event opens a new stage of the program–the beginning of commercial operation and full-scale serial production. No doubt the new Russian aircraft will be a perfect operating tool in the fleet of Armavia and our colleagues from [Italian support partner] Superjet International will give full support to Armenian national carrier and provide timely and high-quality after-sales support.”
