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Ukraine and Russia Offer Airplane Engines to All Europe

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

The second birth of the joint Ukrainian Russian consortium, established to produce AN-70 airplanes, has turned to the serial manufacture of D-27 engines for this type of aircraft.

This is how it is supposed to be done: The Salut plant in Moscow and engine building plant in Ufa will manufacture parts and aggregates, then ship them to the Motor-Sich Co. in Ukraine for assembly. This means we will have engines, but we do not know exactly how many. Europe still is deciding if it will use the AN-70 as the basis for developing the Future Large Airplane. A working group will meet at the Berlin Air Show to discuss this issue. The Antonov Aircraft Factory is awaiting a visit of German experts, who will decide whether Europe will spend $9 billion on the development and introduction of their own plane of the twenty-first century or they will cut the expense to $6 billion by basing it on the AN-70. Ukraine and Russia are currently assembling engines, because there is no money to build 400 AN-70s (100 for Ukraine and 300 for Russia).

 

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