Russia’s Sukhoi slightly delays first flight of SuperJet 100
 MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Prime-Tass) -- Major Russian aircraft holding Sukhoi Company has slightly delayed the first flight of the SuperJet 100 regional aircraft, Olga Kayukova, public relations director of the holding's subsidiary Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, told Prime-Tass Tuesday without providing an exact timeline.
The first test flight of the SuperJet 100 was expected to take place by the end of 2007 and mass production was expected to start in 2008, the company said earlier.
The rolling out of SuperJet 100 aircraft took place in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on September 26. Kuyakova noted that in general aviation practice, the period between the rolling out of a plane and its first test flight is usually four to five months.
As of now, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has firm orders to supply 73 SuperJet 100 aircraft.
In particular, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has contracts to supply 30 SuperJets 100s to Russian flag carrier Aeroflot Russian Airlines, 15 aircraft to Russian airline alliance AiRUnion, six aircraft to Russian airline Dalavia, 10 aircraft to Russia’s Financial Leasing Company, 10 aircraft to Italian airline ItAli and two aircraft to Armenian airline Armavia.
Sukhoil Civil Aircraft is a subsidiary of Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi, which is in turn controlled by the United Aircraft Building Corporation (UAC).
It is developing the SuperJet 100 aircraft in cooperation with U.S. aircraft company Boeing. The SuperJet 100 is expected to replace Tu-134 passenger aircraft.
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