Press release
13/05/2019
The MC-21-300 test aircraft, equipped with a passenger cabin, made the flight from Ulyanovsk Vostochny airport to Ramenskoye airport (Zhukovsky, Moscow region).
The aircraft was piloted by a crew of 1st class test pilot Vasily Sevastyanov and Hero of Russia, honored test pilot Roman Taskaev.
The flight was in normal mode, without complaint.
The new aircraft will join the other two aircraft performing flights from the Ramenskoye airfield under the certification test program.
In Ulyanovsk, the MC-21-300 aircraft was painted according to production technologies by Spektr-Avia company.
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