A week ago, the aviation world was disturbed by an incident that occurred in the British Isles. By this, we mean a failure of the Catalina flying boat called ‘Miss Pick Up’ and her emergency landing on the famous Loch Ness in Scotland, that took place on Saturday, 17th October. Thanks to The Catalina...
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Recently, a few interesting news related to the modernization of the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (U-UAP), belonging to the Russian Helicopters, were released by the holding company. The introduced changes were focused on two main aspects – new equipment for the production process and better work organization, both resulting in decreasing of labour intensity and...
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During the International Helicopter Industry Exhibition HeliRussia, held between 15th and 17th September 2020 in Moscow, the Russian Helicopters holding presented new equipment options for Ansat multipurpose helicopter and announced the development of the new generation of this light rotorcraft. ´The Ansat helicopter project is continually being developed to meet the needs of our...
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The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) has validated the type certificate for Mi-171A2 helicopter, which is manufactured at the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, belonging to the Russian Helicopters holding company. Validation of Mi-171A2 certificate confirms the compliance of its design with local flight safety requirements and authorizes its use in the...
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Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (a part of the Russian Helicopters holding company) recently announced the delivery of modernized Mi-171 helicopter with VK-2500-03 engines to a Chinese civil aviation company. In 2019, the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued a national type certificate for Mi-171 with the new power plant. It allowed the manufacturer to include...
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As announced by the Russian Helicopters company, a contract for supplying two Mi-38 rotorcraft was recently signed by the manufacturer with the Russian Ministry of Defence. The helicopters will be delivered in a passenger variant, with a highly comfortable cabin. An official ceremony of concluding the contract was held in Kubinka, during the International...
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A few days ago Russian Helicopter company announced the commencement of serial production of the upgraded Mi-35P attack helicopter. The first serial rotorcraft has already completed its type-specific flight tests and received an acknowledgement of the declared performance characteristic and changes performed to its design. The tests took place at Rostviertol premises and the...
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Russian Helicopters company, the manufacturer of light multipurpose Ansat helicopter, recently received an approval from the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) for isolation units to be installed in medical variant of the Ansat rotorcraft. ´Currently, about 30 Ansat helicopters were already delivered to Russian regions for HEMS purposes. In order to improve their performance...
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Russian Helicopters company delivered the first Ansat helicopter for EMERCOM of Russia – the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters. The rotorcraft will be operated by the North-Western Aviation and Rescue Centre of EMERCOM, located at Kasimovo airfield. Following the contract signed...
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At the beginning of March 2020, light multipurpose helicopter Ansat, being manufactured by Russian Helicopters company, received three new, important certificates from the Russian aviation authorities, significantly increasing the capabilities of this rotorcraft. Firstly, on 12th March 2020, the Kazan Helicopters company – a manufacturer of Ansat helicopter being a part of Russian Helicopters...
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