On February 14 Airworthiness Certificates for three Sukhoi Superjet 100 operated by Aeroflot have been renewed. It is expected that the fourth Sukhoi Superjet 100 will be back to operations by the end of this week. Deficiencies detected have been eliminated in cooperation with the airline.
The SSJ100 is a 100 seat regional jet designed, developed and built by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), in partnership with Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica Company. On May 19th 2008 SSJ100 successfully accomplished its first flight. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 cruises at a Maximum Operating Speed of Mach 0.81 and 40,000 feet. It takes off from a 1,731 meters runway in the basic range and 2,052 meters in the long range. The operating range for the basic version is 3,048 km and 4,578 km for the long range version.
Sukhoi SuperJet press release
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