18 September 2014 marked a year since Russian regional airliner Sukhoi Superjet 100 started flying services for Mexican airline Interjet. The latter, Mexico's second-largest air carrier, became the launch customer for the Superjet in the West.

18 September 2014 marked a year since Russian regional airliner Sukhoi Superjet 100 started flying services for Mexican airline Interjet. The latter, Mexico's second-largest air carrier, became the launch customer for the Superjet in the West.

In September 2014, the Russian Emergencies Ministry and United Aircraft Corporation signed several agreements and governmental contracts for supply of advanced Russian-built aircraft. The signature of the documents took place the ministry's headquarters. The documents signed included governmental contracts, under which the ministry shall take delivery of two Sukhoi SuperJet 100s in special variants in 2015.

A Russian Air Force Su-25 attack aircraft landed on a motorway, rather than an airfield, for the first time in the service's history as part of a special logistic support exercise staged by the Eastern Military District on 4 September 2014. The landing on the M-60 Ussuri federal motorway was performed by Col. Alexander Zaripov, officer commanding the 18th Attack Air Regiment stationed at Chernigovka AFB in the Russia's Far East.

The Kiev-based Antonov state company has launched the final assembly of the first prototype of the advanced An-178 ramp-equipped medium-class freighter with a lifting capability of 18 t. The jig assembly of the fuselage was complete this summer, and on 29 July 2014 it was taken out of the jig and brought to the final assembly hall, where the basic airframe components (wing, empennage, nacelle struts, engine nacelles, etc.) will be mated, aircraft systems will be installed and the equipment will be tested. According to an official Antonov news release, the assembly of the An-178 prototype is planned for completion by early 2015, when its flight trials are to commence.