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MOSCOW, June 10. The United Aviation Corporation has begun flight certification tests of the Russian short-haul aircraft SJ-100, today the first flight took place within their framework, says the UAC Telegram channel.
“»There is a landing! The SJ-100 completed the first flight under the flight program certification tests,” the message notes.
“This flight marked the beginning of the flight test program, which constitutes a significant part of the work during the certification of the import-substituted modification of the aircraft. In total, by the end of 2025 we have to carry out about 200 flights, their intensity will certainly increase with the addition of two more prototypes to the tests, which are currently We are currently awaiting the installation of PD-8 engines in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. These tests will allow us to guarantee the safety of millions of passengers who will be on board the SJ-100 in the coming years,” said Andrey, UAC Deputy General Director for Civil Aviation — General Director of Yakovlev PJSC. Boginsky.
At the end of April, the corporation reported that a prototype of the import-substituting Russian SJ-100 aircraft had arrived at the Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, to prepare for flight certification tests.
According to the comprehensive program for the development of the aviation industry updated by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation, certification of this aircraft is planned to be completed in 2025.
During the first flight, which took place at the Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield in Zhukovsky, a domestic fuel system was tested, UAC specified.
The aircraft was piloted by a crew consisting of the aircraft commander, test pilot Vadim Shirokikh, test pilot Leonid Chikunov, test pilot, certification center expert Mikhail Trubnikov, leading aircraft flight test engineer, on-board operator Denis Velizhanin and leading aircraft flight test engineer, on-board operator, certification center expert Gevorg Matsakyan.
The flight duration was 2.5 hours, it went smoothly, 15 test modes were completed, and no equipment failures were recorded. To speed up the program, the first prototype of the aircraft is flying on French-Russian SaM146 engines, two more prototypes will join the tests when the PD-8 engine is cleared for flights.