Flight tests of the first upgraded Mil Mi-26T2 heavylift helicopter continue at Rostvertol JSC’s flight test facility in Rostov-on-Don. The machine is a derivative of the production Mi-26T, from which it differs in having an up-to-date digital avionics suite allowing effective round-the-clock operation and a flying crew reduction down to two. In addition, provision has been made for use of upgraded D-136-2 (AI-136T) turboshaft engines featuring enhanced power under hot-and-high conditions.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) of the CIS has completed the certification of the modified Antonov An-158 regional airliner by having issued Supplement to Type Certificate ST264-An-148 that had been issued for the An-148-100 on 26 February 2007. IAC Chairwoman Tatyana Anodina handed the document to Antonov President and Designer General Dmitry Kiva in a ceremony in Kiev on 28 February 2011. At the same time, Ukrainian deputy Transport and Communication Minister Anatoly Kolesnik gave Antonov’s boss a similar certificate issued by the Ukrainian State Aviation Administration.

In mid-February 2011, the Russian Air Force took delivery of the first four out of an order of 12 Sukhoi Su-27SM multirole single-seat fighters, which delivery had been stipulated by the deal clinched by the Sukhoi company and the Russian Defence Ministry during the MAKS 2009 air show in August 2009. The warplanes completed a long flight from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to the air base in Krymsk, Krasnodar Region, which had taken delivery of a pair of two Su-30M2 twin-seat multirole fighters last year. Unlike the Su-27SMs delivered to RusAF in 2003 through 2009 and derived from in-service Su-27 fighters by KnAAPO by means of upgrade, the newly delivered aircraft are brand-new and just out of the assembly shop..

Russian companies NPO Saturn and UMPO continue to fulfil a contract on the HAL-ordered AL-55I engines designed to power the future HAL HJT-36 Sitara intermediate jet trainer (IJT). AL-55I prototypes have been mounted on both HJT-36 prototypes that had previously been powered by SNECMA Larzac 04H20 engines producing less thrust (the first of the prototypes, PT-1 serialled S-3466, conducted its first Larzac-powered flight on 7 March 2003, and the other (PT-2, S-3474) followed on 26 March 2004).