Russia’s Aeroflot is planning to order 90 Yakovlev MC-21 narrowbody aircraft by the end of 2025, according to the Russian state-owned news agency TASS. The news comes as the country’s flag carrier ...

The first MC-21-210 airliner, made of only Russian-produced components, finally took flight when tail number 73055 soared skyward on April 23, 2025. According to a report by Ruavia, the prototype, ...

Recently, the first test MC-21-300 aircraft flew from the airfield of Irkutsk Aviation Plant to the airfield of Flight Research Institute n.a. M.M. Gromov (Ramenskoye, Moscow Region), to continue ...

Russia’s United Aircraft has carried out the maiden flight of a modified prototype Yakovlev MC-21 which has been fitted with a number of domestically-built systems and components. The twinjet took off ...

Yakovlev has commenced ground-based assessment of the fully import-substituted MC-21 prototype, in preparation for transferring it to the flight-test station. The aircraft, which first flew in ...

Russian aircraft maker Yakovlev has reshuffled its engineering teams as it works to certify its MC-21 narrowbody after multiple delays. The manufacturer has called in designers from the Sukhoi ...

The state corporation noted that this aircraft completed a nonstop flight from Irkutsk to Zhukovsky on November 13 MOSCOW, November 27. /TASS/. The second import-substituted model of the Russian MC-21 ...

Sergey Aleksandrovsky noted that the group's fleet could increase to 460 aircraft by 2030 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8. /TASS/. Aeroflot wants to complete the discussions and sign firm contracts for 90 ...

The Russian government has approved development of a shorter variant of the country’s MC-21-300 narrowbody passenger airliner. The Jan. 23 decision allows airframer United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) ...