TSAMTO, November 23. Tests of the Ansat-M helicopter should be completed in 2023, the general director of the Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec) said in an interview with RIA Novosti Andrey Boginsky.
"By the end of the year, my colleagues and I in cooperation within Rostec are striving to get approval of the main change to autopilot and a new avionics for instrument flight. Somewhere by August-September next year - approval for an anti-icing system of blades– and in 2023 - these are new blades that will increase the maximum take-off weight of the machine by 200 kg. The process is underway, we are on schedule," Boginsky said.
According to him, a significant part of the work has already been completed: approval of the main changes to the type certificate for the on-board winch, external suspension and an additional fuel tank has been received, the agency notes.
The upgraded Ansat-M light multipurpose helicopter has an improved fuel system installed, which has increased the flight range, and the latest avionics equipment will allow flying in zero visibility conditions, Rostec reported at the end of 2020, when the first Ansat-M took to the sky.
