The International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS in Zhukovsky is widely recognized as the presentation of the flagship products of the Russian aviation industry. Especially the presentation of the Russian military aviation is a matter of interest for the international press and the aviation enthusiast, leaving in the shadow the exhibition related to General...
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The very first serial Mi-38 helicopter made by the Kazan Helicopter Plant was presented two weeks ago at a static exposition of International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019. The helicopter also took part in the flight programme, flying with other civilian aircraft made by Russian Helicopters. The pre-production prototypes of Mi-38, used for the...
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During the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of RostecState Corporation), Gazprombank Leasing and Norilsk Avia(part of Norilsk Nickel group) signed a contract to supply 10 multipurpose Mi-8AMT helicopters. The helicopters are to be built at the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, which is part of Russian Helicopters Holding Company, the...
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During the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, VR-Technologies — innovation design office of the Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) — signed dealership agreements on promotion and sales of the light multipurpose helicopter VRT500 with a Malaysian company Ludev Aviation. It is planned to start the supplies in 2023. The...
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During the last week the aviation world was focused on International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019 organized in Zhukovsky, and the news from the show are now hovering in mass and social media, overshadowing other aviation-related events – maybe not so spectacular as MAKS was, but still worth noticing. Today, on 4th of September,...
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In December 2018 LOT Polish Airlines celebrated its 90th anniversary. Apart from obvious official ceremonies that were held on this occasion, the management of the national carrier prepared a nice surprise for its passengers and aviation enthusiasts, introducing a beautiful retro livery on one of its Embraer ERJ-175 regional jet. Many airlines paint selected...
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Unfortunately, it seems that this year´s series of bad aviation-related news will continue… A few month ago, we´ve mentioned in our articles about the decision made by the new management of Breitling company, to discontinue their support of the aviation activities and directing their advertising to other channels. Because the watch-manufacturing company was connected...
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Russian Helicopters Holding Company has just delivered three Ka-32A-11BC multipurpose helicopters to Turkey. All of them will be used for firefighting purposes. In July 2018 contracts were signed with KAAN Air (Turkey) for delivery of three Ka-32A-11BC multipurpose helicopters and currently all three were handed over to the customer. The rotorcrafts were purchased primarily...
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A few months ago, in April, we´ve shared the information that due to the limited budget and the scope of the repairs that should be performed on the only flying Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation in Europe (and one of only two airworthy ´Connies´ in the world), the owners of the aircraft – Super Constellation...
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In 2019, Russian Helicopters Holding Company is planning to re-engineer approximately 30 different helicopter parts to be manufactured using 3D printing technology and integrate them to serial production starting from 2020. ´This year we are finishing the re-engineering of around 30 different parts and details that will be manufactured using additive technologies. These parts...
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