According to spotters, on June 10, 2021, flight tests of the IL-76MD-90A military transport aircraft with the factory number 0206 (registration number RF - 78661), built at the Ulyanovsk Aviastar-SP JSC (part of the Transport Aviation Division of the United Aircraft Corporation JSC-UAC), began at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny factory airfield complex. This is the first IL-76MD-90A aircraft of the new construction, raised in the air in 2021. Interestingly, there is no official information about the beginning of flight tests of this aircraft.
The first IL-76MD - 90A military transport aircraft (factory number 0206, registration number RF-78661), built in 2021 at JSC Aviastar-SP (part of the Transport Aviation Division of JSC United Aircraft Corporation-UAC) in Ulyanovsk, is undergoing flight tests. The picture was taken during the flight of the aircraft to the aerodrome of the Kazan Aviation Plant 16.06.2021 (c) Dmitry Romashko / AviMedia / russianplanes.net ( link )
The IL-76MD-90A aircraft with the factory number 0206 was pumped out to the Aviastar-SP flight test station on May 16, 2021 and was declared UAC as the first assembled on a new assembly line at this enterprise. It was reported that "the introduction of a new technological process in the future will contribute to increasing the volume of serial production of more than 10 aircraft per year", and that "in contrast to the previously used technology, the new assembly line in JSC Aviastar-SP will reduce the complexity of aircraft assembly by 38 percent".
This aircraft made its first flight only on June 10. The rise of the first aircraft of the year in fact by the end of the first half of the year indicates that the serial production of the IL-76MD-90A in Ulyanovsk continues to stall without visible changes in the pace of construction, despite the introduction of"in-line assembly".
Earlier, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said that in 2021, the Russian Aerospace Forces should be handed over five new-built IL-76MD-90A aircraft.
The IL-76MD-90A aircraft with the factory number 0206 (registration number RF-78661) became the eighth 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 in the amount of 139.42 billion rubles, and the first built in 2021.
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, it entered the 610th Air Marshal N. S. Skripko Center for Combat Use and Retraining of Military Transport Aviation Personnel in Ivanovo.
The second and third aircraft Il-76MD-90A contract 2012 was built by the "Aviastar-SP" in 2018 and handed over to the Ministry of defense of Russia in the first half of 2019 - Board serial number 0109 (registration number RF-78655, made its first flight in Ulyanovsk, 7 November 2018 and was transferred to the Russian aerospace forces on 2 April 2019) and 0110 (registration number RF-78656, made its first flight on 22 December 2018, passed VKS on May 16, 2019). Both of these aircraft were part of the 235th Military Transport Aviation Regiment of the 18th Military Transport Aviation Division of the Military Transport Aviation of the Russian Air Force, formed at the end of 2017, based at the Aviastar-SP factory airfield Ulyanovsk-Vostochny, becoming the first two IL-76MD-90A to enter the linear 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 plane with the factory number 0202 (registration number RF-78657), raised in the air on June 13, 2019 and transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces on August 30, 2019.
In 2020, Aviastar-SP launched three new IL-76MD-90A aircraft (the fifth, sixth and seventh under this contract). On March 17, 2020 [...], an IL-76MD-90A aircraft with the factory number 0203 (registration number RF-78658, name "Henrikh Novozhilov") made its first flight at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny factory airfield complex, on August 26 - name/news/442029_v_vozduhe_eshe_odin_novyi_samolet_il-76md-90a.html "target=" _blank "rel=" nofollow " >second aircraft> with factory number 0204 (registration number RF-78659), and on December 6, 2020, the third aircraft with factory number 0205 (registration number RF - 78660). All three of these boards were officially transferred The Ministry of Defense of Russia only on January 29, 2021, also becoming part of the 235th Military Transport Aviation Regiment.
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 CBPPLS of the VTA 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 continues to be in the testing phase.
Thus, to date, the Aviastar-SP plant has built a total of 12 copies (including a 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 on new terms renegotiated a contract with Aviastar-SP JSC for the supply of IL-76MD-90A military transport aircraft. Under the new terms, 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 enter into force.
