Moscow. 03 September 2018. Experienced aircraft MS-21-300, passing flight tests at the aerodrome of the Flight Research Institute. MM Gromov, first landed in the dark. During the flight, the functioning of navigation and landing equipment, as well as external lighting equipment, was checked.
For instrumental testing of systems, the aircraft made several passes over the runway from two directions at different heights. The flight task was completed completely, all systems worked normally.
Currently, two experimental aircraft MS-21-300 take part in the flight tests. Another machine undergoes static tests at TsAGI.
At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a subsidiary of PJSC “Irkut Corporation” (as part of the UAC), three experimental MS-21-300 aircraft are being built, two of which will join the flight test program, and one will be submitted for resource tests at TsAGI.
