On 18 April 2013, the Transaero air carrier took delivery of the first of the two Tupolev Tu-204-100C freighters ordered from the Ilyushin Finance Co. leasing company. On that day, the aircraft (reg. RA-64052) arrived at its base at Domodedovo in the Moscow Region from the factory airfield in Ulyanovsk. Transaero used it on a scheduled freight operation as soon as 21–22 April. Having left Domodedovo airport, the aircraft made a stopover at Novosibirsk's Tolmachovo airport that it departed for Yakutsk after having been refuelled, maintained and laden with extra food and mail. The Tu-204-100C hauled a total of 24 t of cargo on its first commercial flight. Services on this route shall be weekly. Transaero has plans to fly its new cargo liners on both domestic and international lines. The acceptance of the second Tu-204-100C (reg. RA-64051) was planned to commence in June.

A cycle of tests of several models of winged reusable rocket stages was completed in April 2013 with the use of TsAGI's UT-1M and T-117 wind tunnels. These winged stages are to become the reusable first stage of the MRKS-1 reusable space rocket system being developed in Russia under the Federal Space Programme. The tests of the models were focused on assessing the impact of the thermal load on the winged reusable rocket stages. Experiments designed to gauge their flight performance at subsonic and supersonic speed are slated for June.

This summer, the fourth flying prototype of the Sukhoi PAK FA (T-50) fifth-generation advanced tactical fighter joined the factory flight tests being flown at Sukhoi's flight test facility in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. Together with the third prototype, it is used mostly for flight testing of the fighter's cutting-edge avionics suite – an advanced Tikhomirov-NIIP AESA airborne radar in the first place, a sophisticated IRST system and other systems as well.

The PAK FA's fourth flying prototype, the T-50-4, was completed in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in late autumn last year. Sukhoi's test pilot Sergei Bogdan conducted the first flight on 12 December 2012 and then flew it to the Gromov LII Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky on 15–17 January 2013 following several test flights and the painting in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The ferry flight about 7,000 km long, which included several stopovers across Russia, went smoothly and demonstrated the high reliability o the aircraft and all of its systems. As is known, the first three PAK FA prototypes were disassembled and flown to Zhukovsky by An-124 Ruslan airlifters after their several test flights in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The T-50-4 is the first prototype that ferried itself from the plant in the Russian Far East to the Moscow Region.

Late on 22 April 2013, a new aircraft of the Island's of Freedom flag carrier Cubana de Aviacion landed at the airport of the Cuban capital city, Havana. It is the first of the three Antonov An-158 regional jets due to Cuba this year. The aircraft has been made by the Antonov serial plant in Kiev this year with the use of a number of assemblies supplied by Russia's VASO. The deal was arranged by Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co., and the immediate lessor is Panamanian company South American Aircraft Leasing (SAAL), with Russia's Roseximbank providing the latter with relevant loans.

12 April 2013 made quite a stir in the Russian Air Force Borisoglebsk Bomber and Attack Aircraft Crew Training Centre: a fifth-year cadet flew his first solo mission on an advanced Yakovlev Yak-130 combat trainer. Yak-130 deliveries to the training centre in Borisoglebsk have started two years ago, and now the centre has 28 aircraft of the type, ousting the famous Czech-made L-39 'flying school desks' out of its aircraft fleet.