In spite of the AW139 licence production programme being run by Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland in Tomilino, Moscow Region, the Kamov Ka-62 advanced medium multirole helicopter remains high on the holding company’s priority list of helicopters with a takeoff weight of 6–7 t. Initially the Ka-62 was conceived as a civilian version of the Ka-60 military multirole helicopter, which first prototype flew its maiden mission as far back as December 1998. The second prototype was made in the Ka-60U trainer version in 2007.

3 May 2011 saw the first production-standard advanced Sukhoi Su-35S multirole fighter built under the contract awarded by the Russian Defence Ministry take off from KnAAPO’s airfield for its maiden flight. During the sortie, which lasted an hour and a half, various operating modes of the integrated control system and powerplant of the aircraft and its stability and controllability were tested. The engine, systems and avionics operated without fault. Honoured Test Pilot Sergey Bogdan was at the controls. He had taken the Su-35’s first flying prototype (No. 901) to the air on 19 February 2008 and the second prototype, Su-35-2 (No. 902), on 2 October the same year.

The upgraded Tupolev Tu-204SM airliner prototype powered by advanced PS-90A2 engines co-developed by the Aviadvigatel joint stock company and Pratt & Whitney and manufactured by the Perm Engine Company was unveiled to the public on 22 April 2011 during the International Air Transport Forum in Ulyanovsk. On the same day, the aircraft flew to Zhukovsky in the Moscow Region, where the main segment of its certification tests began in May. Prior to that, the first Tu-204SM had flown 33 test sorties under the preliminary test programme during December 2010 through April 2011.

The first Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner was delivered in a ceremony at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport to Armenian air carrier Armavia on 19 April 2011. The lead production airliner (c/n 95007) was named after the Earth’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and given registration number EK95015. The aircraft has a single-class configuration for 98 seats. A day after having been ferried to the operator’s airport, the new airliner commenced regular services. Russia’s Aeroflot is to start flying its Superjets this summer, too.

In April 2011, the first production Ilyushin Il-76MF transport built by Tashkent-based TAPC corp. last year under the contract signed by Rosoboronexport and Jordan in August 2005 completed its tests at Ilyushin’s testing facility in Zhukovsky and was painted in the customer’s colours prior to delivery. Now, the aircraft has Jordanian registration JY-JID and the logos of the Royal Falcon and JIAC (Jordanian International Air Cargo) carriers.