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First MC-21 wing panel delivered to Irkut plant

19/01/2016

Press releaseIssued by JSC Yakovlev Corporation (Irkutsk Aviation Plant).

The right composite wing panel of the MC-21 aircraft is delivered to the Irkut Corporation's plant (a UAC member).

For the first time in world aviation specialists of AeroComposite used the innovative vacuum infusion technology and the automatic carbon filler layup in the wing box manufacturing (the power base of the wing).

Currently, Irkutsk Aviation Plant conducts installation of systems on the assembled fuselage of the first MC-21 aircraft.

JSC AeroComposite completes the left wing panel manufacturing.

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Yakovlev MC-21-300
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Airframe Assemblies
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AeroComposite-Ulyanovsk

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