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MC-21, in 2019 the European certification and the first deliveries

Aeroflot will be launch customer

When it enters service it will probably be too late for the Russian medium-range narrow-body aircraft Irkut MC-21, because in that segment the A-320 and the B-737 are the masters. Designed to replace the Tu-154 and to compete against Airbus and Boeing, this transport-passenger twin-engine has an innovative design that would allow it to perform better than Western aircraft, but to see it in service...

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Moscow, Russia, 07/12/2018 14:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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