Aircraft
Domestic Orders and State Backing Boost Russia's UAC Group
While the SSJ100 and Il-114-300 airliners have received new orders, the new MC-21 model is struggling, prompting Russia's government to show its support.
The Russian government has signaled its ongoing support for the UAC group's new MC-21 airliner. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
The Russian government has signaled its ongoing support for the UAC group's new MC-21 airliner. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

While Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) might well have hoped last month’s MAKS air show in Moscow would bring anxiously awaited new sales of its MC-21 airliner, the company went home with no fresh ink in its order book. So, the intervention less than a week after the event by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin must have been especially welcome with a pledge of fresh government support for the new narrowbody.