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UAC To Produce 43 Deliverable MC-21s from 2021-2023
The Irkutsk plant in Siberia expects to reach a production capacity of 72 MC-21s by 2025.
The second Irkut MC-21 test article makes a demonstration flight during August's Moscow Air Show. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
The second Irkut MC-21 test article makes a demonstration flight during August's Moscow Air Show. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Airline customers will receive six MC-21 jetliners in 2021, twelve in 2022, and 25 in 2023, advisor to United Aircraft Corporation president Yuri Slyusar and former head of Aeroflot Valery Okulov said Tuesday at a roundtable in the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament. Okulov further said that the manufacturing site in Irkutsk would work to capacity, making 72 airframes annually, starting in 2025. He also outlined plans for Sukhoi SSJ100 fleet growth, from 155 in 2019 to 185 next year and 215 in 2021.


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