Joint Aviation Corporation (UAC) Plans to complete the Superjet aircraft certification in the Business version of Aurus Bussines Jet (ABJ) in 2022. The Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said about the combination of RBC brands.
Aurus Bussines Jet is based on Sukhoi Business Jet (SBJ) – SuperJet in the VIP configuration. The SBJ presentation took place in the summer of 2021 at the Max airplane in Zhukovsky. Then the idea appeared to finalize it and release the plane under the Aurus brand. The first show of Aurus Bussines Jet will be held at the Dubai Airshow 2021 air show, which will be held from 14 to 18 November. The plane will put in the parking lot of Aurus along with the “AnSat” helicopter and limousine.
In a new plane, there is a shower, high-speed Internet and built-in ladder. ABJ will be able to fly without refueling 7200 kilometers – the distance from Moscow to Vladivostok – thanks to the additional fuel system, first installed on the SuperJet aircraft. Now the maximum flight range of Passenger SuperJet 100 is from 3 to 4.6 thousand kilometers depending on the configuration.
The first ABJ was created on the means of “Rostech”, which includes OAK. The source of the publication said that the manufacture of the cabin cost 900 million rubles. The cost of the new business and jet will depend on the configuration and selected options. In total, about 170 aircraft, comparable in size and characteristics, are used in the world, reported in the Ministry of Industry.
In late October, it became known that 1.08 billion rubles will be spent on the laboratory tests of the new passenger aircraft Sukhoi Superjet New (SSJ-NEW). The new aircraft will replace Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) and will consist of 97 percent parts of Russian production. Now the SSJ100 uses 50 percent of domestic parts.