Russian Industry Ministry plans to update aviation industry development program by end of 2025

MOSCOW. April 17 (Interfax) - The comprehensive program for the development of the Russian aviation industry through 2030, which reflects the plans for passenger traffic by Russian airlines, as well as the production of Russian aircraft, should be updated by the end of this year, said Anna Panina, head of the Industry and Trade Ministry's Aviation Industry Department.

"We are in fact planning to amend the comprehensive program, which will among other things enable our cooperation [with the Transport Ministry] to assess clearly where they might need to make forward-looking assumptions, by the end of the year so that it really does become the key underlying document for us," Panina said at a roundtable on measures to ensure Russia's transport independence by expanding aircraft production.

The comprehensive program through 2030 was approved in 2022 and calls for the production of 994 aircraft, 592 of them by United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), including 142 SJ-100 aircraft, 270 MC-21, 51 Il-114-300, 115 Tu-214 and 14 Il-96-300. UAC is part of the state Rostec corporation, whose head, Sergei Chemezov, has said the program might again be adjusted this year "in keeping with the plans and opportunities of airlines." He said UAC would have to produce at least 200 aircraft by 2030.