| Role | Regional jet airliner | ||
| First flight : | 19 May 2008 | ||
| Status : | In production, in service | ||
| Primary users : | Aeroflot, Armavia | ||
| Produced : | 2008 - | ||
| Introduced : | 19 May 2008 | ||
| Number built : | 101 (as of March 2016) | ||
| Unit cost : | $35 million | ||
| List of Sukhoi Superjet 100 by registration number | |||
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is a fly-by-wire regional jet airliner built by russian aerospace company Sukhoi in cooperation with Boeing and other western partners. The airliner fits into the 75 to 95 seat category being the first new russian designed airliner in the past 20 years. Development was started in 2000 and the maiden flight of the type was performed on 19 May 2008. The first commercial revenue flight was performed on 21 April 2011 by launch customer Armavia from Yerevan to Moscow.
Table of contents
Development
Background
Production
Design
Technology
Operational Service
Competitors
Deliveries
Accidents
- The Sukhoi Superjet demonstration tour crash - On 9 May 2012 the Sukhoi Superjet 100 with registration RA-97004 was performing a demonstration flight with 37 passengers and eight crew members on board when it disappeared from radar screens in a mountainous area 60km south of Jakarta, in the province of West Java, Indonesia. Search and rescue operations found the aircraft the next day crashed on the side of a ridge on Mount Salak
Specifications
Similar aircraft
Bombardier CSeries CS300
Further reading
Sukhoi
Aviation pages
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