Engines
Russia Readies Indigenous PD-8 for Superjet Re-engining
United Engine Corporation has assembled the first PD-8 engine core.

Russia’s United Engine Corp. (ODK) has assembled the first engine core of the domestically produced turbofan scheduled to power a reworked SSJ100 without Western components. The completely indigenous PD-8 engine would replace the PowerJet SaM.146, which uses a Safran core and Russian cold sections. It will use technologies developed and tested on the larger PD-14 turbofan, which powers the Irkut MC-21 narrowbody. ODK plans soon to subject the new engine core to bench testing and exhibit it at the 2021 Moscow Air Show in July.