Aircraft
Irkut MC-21 Wins Few Airline Orders at MAKS 2017
Air show deals include one new direct contract with Irkutsk-based Angara Airlines

While a few Russian carriers signed order agreements involving the Irkut MC-21 jetliner at Moscow’s MAKS 2017, the airliner’s airshow profile proved less than impressive, particularly given that the first operable prototype did not make an appearance. The airframer said the new narrowbody had performed nine flights before the show opening, and that it would not ferry it to Ramenskoye airport in Zhukovsky near Moscow for the next phase of testing until it completes another 30 flights from the site of the manufacturing plant in Irkutsk.


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