The Russian Defence Ministry is going to order in the near future from Irkut Corp. a batch of Su-30SM two-seat supermanoeuvrable multirole fighters derived from the Su-30MKI aircraft exported by the company. Irkut President Alexei Fyodorov told the media that a contract was in the pipeline for 28 aircraft for the Russian Air Force with 12 options that could be fielded with the air arm of the Russian Navy. The order is to be placed next year, but the Irkutsk Aircraft Plant is already making two first Su-30SMs intended to enter the test programme in the configuration approved by RusAF. According to Alexander Veprev, Director General, Irkutsk Aircraft Plant, the two Su-30SM prorotypes will be able to launch their trials before year-end.

The contract for delivery of two brand-new Ilyushin Il-76MF airlifters to Jordan was fulfilled in June 2011. The Russian-Jordanian deal on two Il-76MFs was clinched in August 2005, during the MAKS 2005 air show. The Rosoboronexport company was earmarked as supplier, with construction itself to be handled by the Tashkent Aircraft Production Corp. (TAPC). The difficulties experienced by the manufacturer plant and its disagreements with the Russian party as to the terms of the deal resulted in slippage. Ilyushin and TAPC signed a contract for two airlifters as late as 4 July 2007, but the actual work on the aircraft kicked off only after Rosoboronexport and Jordan in December 2009 made a supplementary agreement providing for a certain postponement of the delivery.

The government order for 12 new-generation Yakovlev Yak-130 combat trainers for the Russian Air Force was fulfilled this summer, when the last three aircraft of the batch built by the Sokol aircraft plant in Nizhny Novgorod flew from the factory airfield to the Air Force Training Centre in Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Region. The first five Yak-130s (serials 21 through 25) arrived in Borisoglebsk on 6 April 2011. Two more aircraft (90 and 91) came in from Lipetsk in mid-June. Along with two other planes (92 and 93), they had been delivered to the RusAF State Aviation Personnel Training and Operational Evaluation Centre during February through April last year.

Irkut Corp. is going to display a full-scale mock-up of a 20-m-long section of the fuselage of its prospective MC-21 new-generation short/medium-haul airliner at Le Bourget for the first time in June 2011. An impressive mock-up includes pilots cockpit and passenger cabin. By now Irkut has already got 190 orders for MC-21 airliner.

On 3 June 2011, the Gromov LII Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky witnessed the arrival of a new light twin-engined turboprop airplane named Rysachok (Russian for ‘little trotter’). The aircraft that made its maiden flight on 3 December 2010 in Samara is under development on order from the Russian Ministry of Transport for civil aviation flying schools, but it may be used for commuter passenger services, flying club parachutist airdrop, medevac, patrol and other operations as well.