Company Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Aircraft Industries (Kunowice, Czech Republic) to increase aircraft production to 2016 more than 43%.
As reported in an interview with Itar-Tass head of the special legal projects UMMC-Holding, Board Member Aircraft Industries Azerny Timur, in 2013 the Czech company produced 14 regional turboprop aircraft L-410 UVP-E20, 2014 scheduled release of 17 machines, 2015 - 20 units.
Power plant in Kunowice, according to the European certification allows to produce without a radical modernization of the industrial site only 24 aircraft per year, said Azerny.
OOO "UMMC-Holding" has become 100% owner of Aircraft Industries in 2008. Since then, Russia delivered 40 aircraft, the main operators - airlines "Orenburg", "Komiaviatrans" and "Krasavia."
L-410 Kunowice produced since 1967, released just over one thousand of these machines, the majority - for the USSR. Installed on the aircraft engine Walter M-601, production of which began in 1967 also. In August 2013 the Interstate Aviation Committee issued a certificate of addition to L-410, pursuant to which the airplane is equipped with a new turboprop H-80 production of General Electric. The upgraded aircraft was marked L-410 UVP-E20.
According Azernogo, now the company is working on a new generation of aircraft L-410 NG / New Generation / - his prototype was presented at the exhibition "Innoprom" -2014. "There will be a new long airplane wing to increase flight range, luggage compartment capacity, speed, reduce the need for the runway. improved weight distribution and will put a new engine General Electric H-85. "The current avionics replaced by a new, fully digital, based on Garmin G3000. It integrates weather radar, autopilot and a host of other complexes. It premiered in 2009, it is now used in modern business jets Cessna, Embraer, NondaJet, Cirrus ", - said Azerny, adding that" it is possible that Garmin will executor of the program of Russification navigation equipment. "
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