SSJ-100 COST 1.5 BLN DLRS TO CREATE – POGOSIAN
BANGALORE, February 7 (Itar-Tass) – The Sukhoi Superjet-100 airliner
has cost 1.5 billion dollars to create, the president of the United
Aircraft-building Corporation, Mikhail Pogosian, told the media
on Thursday.
“In that amount about 300-400 million dollars was government money,”
he said.
Earlier, some mass media claimed the Russian government had spent
seven billion dollars on the SSJ-100 project.
Superjet-100 is a regional jet liner seating 100, developed and
manufactured by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft with the participation of
Alenia Aermacchi. The standard version has a range of flight of 3,048
kilometers, and the enhanced range version flies 4,578 kilometers
non-stop. At the moment there are 170 contracts for the SSJ-100. The
medium-haul plane will serve as a donor for a future Sukhoi Business
Jet.
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft is an affiliate of the United Aircraft building
Corporation. Its co-owners are the Sukhoi company (75 percent less
one share) and Italy’s Alenia Aeronautica (25 percent plus one share).
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