The MAKS 2011 air show held in Zhukovsky in August 2011 was where a new light twin-engined turboprop plane dubbed Rysachok (Russian for Little Trotter) made its debut. The aircraft was developed by the Technoavia scientific and design company in Moscow and made by the TsKB-Progress rocket and spacecraft centre in Samara under the contract on an advanced trainer aircraft for civilian flying schools, signed with the Russian Ministry of Transport in June 2007. As many as two flying prototypes of the Rysachok are undergoing tests at the Gromov Flight Test Institute (Gromov LII).

The static displays of the MAKS 2011 air show, which took place in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region in August 2011, featured the new An-140-100 turboprop sporting an unusual dark-gray paintjob. The aircraft with side number 41254 is the first An-140 made by the Aviakor plant in Samara on order of the Russian Defence Ministry. It performed its maiden flight on 6 August of this year and arrived in Zhukovsky a week later for the airshow. Aviakor has built only three production An-140s delivered to the Yakutiya air carrier during 2006–09. The full-fledged productionising of the An-140 in Samara is attributed to a contract signed by Aviakor and the Russian Defence Ministry recently. Having ordered its first An-140 (c/n 002) shown at MAKS 2011, the Russian Defence Ministry in May ordered nine more planes to be delivered within three years. All of them will be in the standard 52-seat passenger layout and oust the obsolete An-24s and An-26s used for top brass carriage.

Not long before the MAKS 2011 air show this summer, the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (a subsidiary of the Russian Helicopters holding company) completed two prototypes of the upgraded Mi-34C1 light helicopter Ц the OP-1 (side number 343) trainer version for Russian Air Force flying schools and the OP-2 (side number 342) for commercial operators. The prototype of the commercial version of the Mi-34C1 made its first hover on the premises of Mil in Tomilino, Moscow Region, early in August. Honoured Test Pilot Sergei Barkov took it for its maiden mission on a circuit flight on 4 August 2011 and practiced a demonstration set of manoeuvres for display during MAKS 2011.

The second flying prototype of the upgraded Tupolev Tu-204SM medium-haul airliner conducted its first flight from the factory airfield of the Aviastar-SP corporation in Ulyanovsk on 3 August 2011. The prototype was given number 64151. It spent 52 min. in flight, controlled by the crew made up of pilot Alexander Zhuravlyov (honoured test pilot of Russia), co-pilot Victor Minashkin (Tupolev chief pilot and honoured test pilot of Russia), flight engineer V. Salatov and programme test engineer N. Fanurin. The flight was a success, with all systems functioning well and the planeТs stability and controllability praised by the crew.

In early August 2011, the MiG corporation commenced the assembly of the first MiG-29K/KUB fighters under the contract made last spring for 29 more fighters of the type for the Indian Navy. As is known, the first contract for 16 MiG-29K/KUB multirole carrierborne fighters for the Indian Navy was signed in January 2004. Having developed the plane and completing its flight tests, MiG started full-rate production the MiG-29K/KUB that became the first members of the new MiG-29 family comprising the MiG-29M/M2 and MiG-35 as well.