Aircraft
UAC Details Plans for Sino-Russian Widebody
Joint-venture project to reach market by 2025
Yuri Slyusar appears at his first press conference since becoming UAC president. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
Yuri Slyusar appears at his first press conference since becoming UAC president. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has prepared and submitted to the Russian government “a business concept” for a new Sino-Russian widebody aircraft known under its Russian acronym “ShFS.” UAC expects to submit a preliminary design in July 2015. The announcement came from UAC president Yuri Slyusar at his first press conference in Moscow on January 29, 10 days after he unexpectedly replaced former UAC boss Mikhail Pogosyan. ShFS involves a 50-50 joint venture between Russia and China, forged at a top political level during Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to China last year.


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