In September, Aeroflot signed a contract for 90 MS-21 aircraft. This is the largest contract in the history of Russian civil aviation. The signing took place with the participation of Vladimir Putin. The president said airlines should renew their fleets through their own developments.
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The MS-21 has a Russian heart - a PD-14 engine. This is the first fully domestic engine of this type for civil aircraft since the 1980s. It was created in Perm.
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The engine is the most complex part of the airplane. Only a few countries in the world can do it from scratch.
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PD-14 is now already being used to make MS-21s. The Irkutsk Aviation Plant recently received engines for the fourth plane.