Certification of Long-Range Superjet Brightens Outlook for SCAC
The first SSJ100-95LR, S/N 95032, sits parked at Sukhoi’s Zhukovsky flight test center outside Moscow in March. It performed its maiden flight from SCAC’s assembly site in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Zhukovsky on February 15. (Photo: SCAC)
The first SSJ100-95LR, S/N 95032, sits parked at Sukhoi’s Zhukovsky flight test center outside Moscow in March. It performed its maiden flight from SCAC’s assembly site in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Zhukovsky on February 15. (Photo: SCAC)

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) last Thursday gained Russian certification of a long-range version of the Superjet 100 known as the SSJ100-95LR, following 115 hours of testing during 60 flights since February 15. Five percent more thrust generated by the airplane’s Powerjet SaM146 turbofans and strengthened wings increase the airplane’s range to 2,472 nm from 1,590 and maximum takeoff weight to 109,109 pounds from 101,150. SCAC plans to deliver the first SSJ100-95LR in an all-economy-class, 90-seat configuration to Russia’s Gazpromavia during this year’s third quarter. Gazpromavia has ordered 10 of the long-range airplanes. The company expects that by 2015 all new Superjets will roll off the assembly line as LRs.