As reported, on December 6, 2020, at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny factory airfield complex, the Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft built at the Ulyanovsk Aviastar-SP JSC (part of the transport aviation Division of the United aircraft Corporation JSC) with the factory number 0205 (registration number RF-78660) made its first flight. This is the third new-built Il-76MD-90A aircraft to be flown in 2020.
The third Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft (factory number 0205, registration number RF-78660) built in 2020 at Aviastar-SP JSC is undergoing flight tests. Ulyanovsk, December 2020 (C) Alexander Guk / www.instagram.com
The Il-76MD-90A aircraft with the factory number 0205 (registration number RF-78660) was transferred to the Aviastar-SP flight test station on November 11, 2020. Having made its first flight on December 6, this aircraft was the seventh aircraft built by Aviastar-SP JSC in Ulyanovsk under a contract with the Russian Ministry of defense dated October 2012 for the production of 39 Il-76MD-90A units worth 139.42 billion rubles, and the third to be flown in 2020.
Earlier in 2020, Aviastar-SP launched two new Il-76MD-90A aircraft. On March 17, 2020, the [...] first Il-76MD-90A aircraft built in 2020 with the factory number 0203 (registration number RF-78658) made its first flight at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny factory airfield complex, and on August 26, the second aircraft with the factory number 0204 (registration number RF - 78659) made its first flight.
Both of these aircraft with factory numbers 0203 and 0204 have not yet been delivered to the customer. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of defense distributed information that the ceremony of their transfer was scheduled for November 19, 2020, but, according to known information, this ceremony never took place.
The first Il-76MD-90A aircraft for the Russian Ministry of defense under a 2012 contract with serial number 0108 (registration number RF-78654) was built at Aviastar-SP more than four years ago and was first flown there on December 15, 2015, and on January 17, 2016 entered the 610th center for combat use and retraining of military transport aviation named after air Marshal N. S. Skripko in Ivanovo.
The second and third aircraft Il-76MD-90A under the contract 2012 was built by "Aviastar-SP" in 2018 and handed over to the Ministry of defense of Russia in the first half of 2019 - side serial number 0109 (registration number RF-78655, made its first flight in Ulyanovsk November 7, 2018 and was transferred to the Russian space forces 2-April 2019) and 0110 (registration number RF-78656, made its first flight on 22 December 2018, transferred VKS may 16, 2019). Both of these aircraft became part of the 235th military transport aviation regiment of the 18th military transport aviation division of The Russian air force, which was formed at the Aviastar-SP factory airfield in Ulyanovsk-Vostochny at the end of 2017, becoming the first two Il-76MD-90A to enter the line part of the Russian air force. The same regiment then received the only new Il-76MD-90A aircraft built in 2019 (the fourth under this contract)-a Board with the factory number 0202 (registration number RF-78657), raised in the air on June 13, 2019 and transferred to the Russian air force on August 30, 2019.
Previously, Aviastar-SP, under a contract dated November 2011, JSC UAC - Transport aircraft built three Il-76MD-90A aircraft of the installation batch with serial numbers 0103, 0104, 0105 in 2014-2015. The first two of them were transferred to PJSC " Taganrog aviation scientific and technical complex named after G. M. Beriev "(TANTK) to create special-purpose vehicles on their basis, and the aircraft with the serial number 0105 was also transferred to the 610th BTA Central air STATION in Ivanovo on December 3, 2015.
In addition, Aviastar-SP also built the first prototype of the Il-78M-90A tanker aircraft (serial number 0201, registration number RF-78741), developed by PJSC Il on the basis of the Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft and made its first flight in Ulyanovsk on January 19, 2018. However, after 11 months of improvements, only on December 27, 2018, the first prototype of the Il-78M-90A made its fourth test flight, officially counted as the first under the factory flight test program. This aircraft is still being tested.
Thus, to date, the Aviastar-SP plant has built a total of 11 copies (including the prototype) of the Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft and one prototype of the Il-78M-90A tanker aircraft.
In may 2020, it became known that the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation under new conditions renegotiated a contract with Aviastar-SP JSC for the supply of Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft. Under the new conditions, under the old contract of 2012, the plant will now deliver a total of 13 Il-76MD-90A aircraft, and from 2021 a new contract for the supply of 14 such aircraft until 2028 will come into force.
The third Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft (factory number 0205, registration number RF-78660) built in 2020 at Aviastar-SP JSC is undergoing flight tests. Ulyanovsk, December 2020 (C) Alexander Guk / www.instagram.com