As reported, at the end of December 2022 at PJSC "Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G.M. Beriev" (TANTK) PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation" in Taganrog, without publicity, the roll-out of the completed construction of the first Be-200ChS amphibious aircraft (Be-200ES), intended for Algeria, took place. Flight tests of this aircraft, apparently, have not yet begun.
Rolling out of the first Be-200ChS amphibious aircraft built for Algeria (Be-200ES) at PJSC Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G.M. Beriev (TANTK) PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation". Taganrog, December 2022 (c) aviaforum.ru The contract for the construction of four Be-200ChS aircraft in export execution for the Ministry of National Defense of Algeria was apparently concluded in 2021.
In August 2021, the Ministry of National Defense of Algeria officially announced that, pursuant to the instructions of Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboun, it entered into negotiations with manufacturers of fire-fighting aircraft and opted for the Russian Be-200 aircraft.
The first Be-200ChS aircraft built for Algeria became the 19th manufactured aircraft of the Be-200 family. Prior to that, 18 Be-200 aircraft were built, including two flight prototypes at TANTK (Be-200 in 1998 and Be-200ChS in 2002), seven serial Be-200ChS at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (commissioned from 2003 to 2011), of which six were delivered to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and one is for the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan, and nine serial Be-200s for TANTK, including six Be-200S for the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia (commissioned from 2016 to 2018) and three Be-200s (one Be-200S and two Be-200PS) for the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy ( commissioned in 2020-2021).
In December 2020, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia signed a contract with TANTK for the manufacture and supply of two more Be-200ChS amphibious aircraft with a total cost of 5.7 billion rubles, with delivery until December 1, 2022, but so far none of these two aircraft has been lifted into the air.
The Algerian contract was actually the first export contract for Be-200 aircraft to be implemented, except for the transfer of one aircraft in 2007 to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan. In June 2017, a contract was also signed for the supply of two Be-200s (with an option for two more) with the Chinese company Leader Energy Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd., with the start of deliveries to it in 2018, but in the end this contract was never implemented.
