Aircraft
Kremlin Allocates Funding To Restore Russian-made Jetliners
The Russian government has pledged some $250 million for the restoration of 10 indigenous airliners and an An-124 cargo hauler.
A Tupolev Tu-204-300 appears at a business aviation show in Vnukovo in September last year. Originally operated by Vladivostok Avia Airlines under lease from IFC, it later went to the government's Cosmonaut Training Centre for subsequent use as a corporate jet. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
A Tupolev Tu-204-300 appears at a business aviation show in Vnukovo in September last year. Originally operated by Vladivostok Avia Airlines under lease from IFC, it later went to the government's Cosmonaut Training Centre for subsequent use as a corporate jet. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Russia’s Ministry for Trade and Industry plans to allocate 15 billion roubles ($250 million) to an effort to restore 11 indigenous airplanes assembled at the turn of the century to airworthy condition, namely eight Tupolev Tu-204/214 narrowbodies, two Ilyushin Il-96 widebody passenger jets, and an Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan cargo airlifter.


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