At the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" held in Kubinka from August 22 to 28, 2021, JSC Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA, Yekaterinburg) for the first time presented a full-size mock-up of a promising training aircraft UTS-800 proposed by it to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, which should be equipped with a VK-800S turboprop engine developed under the auspices of UZGA.
A full-size model of the promising turboprop training aircraft UTS-800 presented by JSC Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) is on display at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021". Kubinka, 24.08.2021 (c) Mikhail Zherdev
The origin of the UTS-800 aircraft is quite obvious to the readers of our blog. Note that due to problems with the Yak-152 aircraft and its diesel engine, the UTS-800 aircraft looks like the most realistic candidate for the role of a promising training aircraft of the initial and main stages of flight personnel training for the Russian Armed Forces - but, as usual in modern Russian aviation projects, only if it is possible to bring the engine for it.
At the beginning of June 2021, the director of the Aircraft division of UZGA, Yevgeny Sergeev , said that the model of the UTS-800 aircraft was planned to be presented in August (which, as we see, was completed), and the first flight prototype was made in December 2021.
Recall that the VK-800S turboprop engine with a take-off capacity of up to 900 hp and a continuous capacity of 810 hp was originally developed by UEC-Klimov JSC (St. Petersburg) as a helicopter turboshaft VK-800V. According to the program of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Russia, the development of its VK-800S turboprop variant has been carried out by UZGA since 2017 at its branch in St. Petersburg, where UEC-Klimov has transferred the documentation. The production of VK-800S prototypes is carried out by the UZGA-controlled Scientific and Production Center "Blades. Compressors. Turbines" (SPC "LKT", Moscow region), it is also planned to carry out serial assembly of the engine there. Bench tests of the VKS-800S were started in 2018. In addition to the UTS-800, UZGA plans to use VK-800S engines also on its new light aircraft LMS-901 "Baikal" and on L-410 aircraft of its own assembly (instead of General Electric H80-200 engines).
A full-size model of the promising turboprop training aircraft UTS-800 presented by JSC Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) is on display at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021". Kubinka, 24.08.2021 (c) Mikhail Zherdev
