The imported Tu-214 flew to the Russian Federation 28 years after its first flight (VIDEO)

The Tu-214 plane made its first flight following being restored to airworthiness. Because the press service of the United Plane Company (UAC) mentioned, the plane is meant to be used as a “flying laboratory.”

“The “flying laboratory” can be used to check various parts and parts of methods and on-board tools beneath this system of full import substitution, in addition to for the modernization and additional improvement of the Tu-214 platform,” the UAC mentioned.

The ship was produced on the Kazan Aviation Plant named following S.P. Gorbunov (department of Tupolev JSC), the place his first flight occurred. It lasted an hour and a half and went as ordinary. Based on the First Deputy Common Director of PJSC UAC, Managing Director of JSC Tupolev Konstantin Timofeev, the Tu-214 would be the first “completely Russian plane” in current many years.

In the meantime, the Tu-214 (unique designation Tu-204-200) is a modification of the Tu-204 with a most take-off weight elevated to 110.75 tons (103.0 tons for the Tu-204-100) and elevated to 25.2 tons most industrial load (21.0 tons for Tu-204). The primary flight occurred on March 21, 1996. The plane is licensed in response to Russian requirements AP-25 (harmonized with overseas FAR-25 and JAR-25). Within the fall of 1997, two plane beneath the designation Tu-204-200 started to be assembled at Aviastar in Ulyanovsk. Then serial manufacturing of this plane beneath the designation Tu-214 started to be carried out by the Kazan Aviation Manufacturing Affiliation named following S.P. Gorbunov. Since April 2010, it has been produced solely in particular configurations; manufacturing of the industrial model has been discontinued.

Additionally earlier, management checks of a pattern of the imported short-haul plane SJ-100 started. The primary flight occurred on the airfield of the Flight Analysis Institute named following M.M. Gromov in Zhukovsky. The plane’s gasoline system, which was fully manufactured in Russia, was examined.