As reported on August 11, 2023 by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, another heavy military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A was manufactured and handed over to the customer in Ulyanovsk at the branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation). The new aircraft has joined the aviation regiment of Military Transport Aviation (VTA) of Russia.
The second built in 2023 at the Ulyanovsk branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation) and transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces military transport aircraft IL-76MD-90A (registration number RF-78669, presumed serial number 0304). The registration numbers of the aircraft in the picture are retouched. Ulyanovsk, August 2023 (from) PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation"
"This is the second machine manufactured within the framework of the current year's production program. Aviastar fulfills its obligations to provide military transport aviation with modern reliable aircraft. We continue large-scale technical re-equipment and modernization of technological capacities, increase the wages of employees, improve the factory territory, thereby ensuring the increase in production volumes and the attractiveness of Aviastar as an employer. Additionally, we are improving a set of measures to attract new employees to our company. All this creates a confident track of development," said Daniil Brenerman, Managing Director of PJSC Il.
From the bmpd side, we point out that, according to available information, the second IL-76MD-90A military transport aircraft built in 2023 at the branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (as part of the UAC) in Ulyanovsk was transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces in this way, which has the registration number RF-78669 (assumed serial number 0304). According to known data, he made his first flight in Ulyanovsk on June 10, 2023. This is generally the 20th aircraft of this type built (including the prototype).
Earlier, on May 30, 2023, the first IL-76MD-90A aircraft manufactured in Ulyanovsk this year with registration number RF-78668 (assumed serial number 0303) was handed over to the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The aircraft that has now been handed over with the alleged serial number 0304 has apparently become the third, built under a 2020 contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense for the construction of 14 Il-76MD-90A aircraft by Aviastar until 2028. Recall that initially the construction of IL-76MD-90A aircraft at Aviastar was carried out 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. Due to the strong delay in the implementation of the contract and the increase in the actual cost of aircraft, in May 2020, the Russian Ministry of Defense renegotiated a contract with Aviastar for the supply of Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft on new terms. Under the new conditions, under the old contract of 2012, the plant was now supposed to deliver a total of 13 Il-76MD-90A aircraft (the contract was eventually completed with the delivery of an aircraft with serial number 0301 in 2022), and from 2021 a new contract for the supply of 14 such aircraft by 2028 was to come into force - the first board built on it was 0302 (RF-78667), commissioned at the end of 2022.
In 2022, the Aviastar plant handed over five Il-76MD-90A aircraft to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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The second built in 2023 at the Ulyanovsk branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation) and transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces military transport aircraft IL-76MD-90A (registration number RF-78669, presumed serial number 0304). The registration numbers of the aircraft in the pictures are retouched. Ulyanovsk, August 2023 (c) PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation"
