Spacepope wrote:

Various reports tha Aeroflot A330-300 RA-73702 has been seized by court order in Sri Lanka. It’s lessor was Aer Cap.

https://www.hirunews.lk/english/306035/ ... ourt-order

https://mobile.twitter.com/AirlineIndus ... 5629652992

Aeroflot announced on 3JUN that is closing all reservations and canceling service to Colombo CMB. This follows the seizure of one of its A330 at Colombo airport by a local court order initiated by the rightful owner of the plane, the lessor AerCap.

https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220606-sujun22cmb

Aircraft released from CMB

https://simpleflying.com/aeroflot-a330- ... -to-leave/

Just wondering, if sanctions played a role, or not?
https://life.ru/p/1500769
A Nordwind 737 landing in Sochi, with a gear on fire.

As per AinOnline today:

"Russia’s ministry for industry and trade has issued a revised plan calling for the production of 1,000 aircraft by domestic manufacturers through 2030. The policy, which is part of a coordinated Kremlin effort to counter disruption to the country’s air transport sector from Western sanctions barring imported aircraft and parts, calls for 564 “major passenger types” with the following breakdown: 12 Ilyushin Il-96-300 widebodies, 270 of the new MC21-310 and 70 Tupolev Tu-214 narrowbody jetliners, 142 of Sukhoi’s new version of the SSJ-100s and 70 Il-114-300 regional turboprops. For operators flying shorter routes, Russian manufacturers have also been instructed to produce more of the Ladoga, L-410, and Baikal commuter turboprop types."

...

"Last month, Aleksei Pesochin, Prime Minister of Russian Federation member state Tatarstan, informed the Republic’s State Council that the KAPO factory in Tatar capital Kazan is going to complete 3 Tu-214s next year, 7 units in 2024, and then continue at a rate of 10 aircraft annually."

...

"“Despite big investments coming to the factory from the federal budget, there are still some grey zone and uncertainties.” Because of these difficulties, the local manufacturers could, at best, produce only about 110 new jetliners by 2025. Accordingly, Rostec—a state corporation that controls all aircraft manufacturers in the country—said it will continue to keep the Il-96-300 in limited serial production at a rate of two a year while admitting the type is unpopular with airlines."

Full article: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news ... tions-bite

12 new Il-96-300 till 2030? Who's going to fly it? Rossiya or Aeroflot?

Since the CR-929 seems already buried is that a new "hope" for the Il-98:

https://simpleflying.com/craic-cr929-ru ... ct-impact/

https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/1096133996775285819/

Another tidbit from our Russian "friends" at Interfax. I admire their optimism

https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/80367/

This is a news feed thread. Post a link, brief comment, a quote is optional. This is not a discussion thread.

This link makes a good point that the Russian airliners should start running out of tires soon. They would have had spare tires on hand, but I'm betting that 4 to 6 months after sanctions started (March 1st/2nd as noted in link, my personal estimate on the timeline), there will be a dire shortage of aircraft tires in Russia for the western aircraft. Not something easy to copy or replace:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... art/?amp=1

We're on day 127 of the invasion (4 months). So perhaps soon tires will be dear, perhaps in 2 months.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... mp;amp;amp

Russian leisure airline Azur Air grounds half its fleet due to lack of spares. According to its CEO this was done to ensure safety while they look for "alternative channels" to procure spares. Out of 22 planes (10 752, 10 763, 1 773 and 1 738) only 12 remain serviceable, (between 757s and 767s).

https://www.interfax.ru/russia/847096

Looks like a Motor Sich A-12 (UR-11316) had some mechanical issues trying to land in Uzhgorod after a flight from Istanbul. Not good to lose a good cargo bird these days in Ukraine.

TWA302 wrote:

Looks like a Motor Sich A-12 (UR-11316) had some mechanical issues trying to land in Uzhgorod after a flight from Istanbul. Not good to lose a good cargo bird these days in Ukraine.

Not good at all, particularly transporting military hardware. Preliminary incident report:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/280053

Major aircraft leasing companies are writing off Billions in losses from aircraft leased to Russian airlines and seized by the Russian government. Lloyds of London insurance syndicates are fighting insurance on the losses. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ai ... li=BBnb7Kz

Aeroflot resuming service to China, using an owned A330.

https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/ae ... ngdu.html/

Seems that a Ukrainian cargo aircraft (Meridian Air Cargo An-12 - UR-CIC) has crashed after attempting an emergency landing in Kavala, Northern Greece... person in the know saying the flight has originated in INI and was on its way to AMM... and was apparently carrying weapons for Ukraine from Serbia. Regrettably, from the videos and images shown so far, it is almost certain that there was loss of life onboard...

https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1548409876635717639

https://en.rua.gr/2022/07/16/ukrainian- ... in-greece/

WSJ: Russian Titanium Maker Is Pulled Off Sanctions List

Behind the paywall, but here is an excerpt:

The European Union blocked a proposal to sanction Russian metals company VSMPO-Avisma PJSC at the last minute, EU diplomats said, after France and other member states objected to the move over fears of a potential retaliatory ban by Russia on titanium exports to the bloc.

The company is a critical supplier of titanium to Airbus SE, the world’s biggest commercial jet maker. Airbus, headquartered in France, employs a large workforce across Europe. It has publicly called for the EU to refrain from banning Russian sales of titanium.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-ti ... os1&page=1

Hypocrisy at its best. You either impose full sanctions or not.

Iran agrees to send spare parts to Russia. Presumably they would only be able to so for Airbus aircraft; not sure to what extent they have parts readily available:

https://aviationsourcenews.com/news/ukr ... aft-parts/

Russian pilots have been instructed to use less brakes [though posted in the discussion thread; below News article is not behind a paywall]:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/r ... r-AA10h0eI

Bees airline in Ukraine has lost its AOC due to not having any aircraft
https://inlviv.in.ua/ukraine/ekonomika/ ... -na-poloty

Reuters article discussing Russia cannibalizing aircraft for parts, including a brand-new A350:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 022-08-08/

Emirates adding more Moscow flights: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/220815-eksep22dme

Air Serbia will fly between Belgrade and Kazan, eff 19SEP, 2x w with A319 equipment.

JU668 BEG 18:00 KZN 23:00 319 14
JU669 KZN 23:55 BEG 03:05+1 319 14

Christmas came early this year for Air Serbia and Belgrade Airport. Record traffic for both in JUL22; BEG charter traffic is up 27%.

Brazilian news website reporting that Aeroflot's top priority is to get a new fleet from UAC by 2030:

https://www.revistaflap.com.br/aviacao- ... ar-voando/

73 SSJs
210 MC-21s
40 Tu-214

This is going to be amazing!

73 Sukhoi Superjet 100, 210 MC-21 e 40 veteran Tupolev Tu-214 all by 2030!

Thats 30 MC-21's per year - so much for daydreaming, even 10 Sukhois and 5 TU-214 per year seems overly optimistic

incitatus wrote:

Brazilian news website reporting that Aeroflot's top priority is to get a new fleet from UAC by 2030:

https://www.revistaflap.com.br/aviacao- ... ar-voando/

73 SSJs
210 MC-21s
40 Tu-214

This is going to be amazing!

Now we know why Moscow woke up covered with smoke this weekend. It is not forest fires in Northern Russia and Siberia. It's coming from this story about SU getting 300 new Russian-made planes by 2030.

More smoke and mirrors from Russia, this time from the leisure airline Azur Air. It is studying the replacement (5-6 years down the road) of its Western fleet with Il-96 and MC-21. Where are they planning to get the Ilyushin planes from is a mystery as only 30 were produced and less than 15 remain in service. Maybe Vladimir Vladimirovich will lease a few of his personal chariots out to them?

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/08/ae ... identales/

dcajet wrote:

More smoke and mirrors from Russia, this time from the leisure airline Azur Air. It is studying the replacement (5-6 years down the road) of its Western fleet with Il-96 and MC-21. Where are they planning to get the Ilyushin planes from is a mystery as only 30 were produced and less than 15 remain in service. Maybe Vladimir Vladimirovich will lease a few of his personal chariots out to them?

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/08/ae ... identales/

Azur Air is in a tricky situation
It's finally owned by Turkish citizens, so if you read into air transport rules real hard, they cannot hold russian air operator certificate. So their mechanism of survival includes making sure russian government does NOT look into them too hard. Perfectly malleable material.
As a result, they do things like putting all their fleet on Russian registry:
https://www.aex.ru/news/2022/8/29/247175/
Exactly as told by Kremlin and minions.

Phosphorus wrote:

dcajet wrote:

More smoke and mirrors from Russia, this time from the leisure airline Azur Air. It is studying the replacement (5-6 years down the road) of its Western fleet with Il-96 and MC-21. Where are they planning to get the Ilyushin planes from is a mystery as only 30 were produced and less than 15 remain in service. Maybe Vladimir Vladimirovich will lease a few of his personal chariots out to them?

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/08/ae ... identales/

Azur Air is in a tricky situation
It's finally owned by Turkish citizens, so if you read into air transport rules real hard, they cannot hold russian air operator certificate. So their mechanism of survival includes making sure russian government does NOT look into them too hard. Perfectly malleable material.
As a result, they do things like putting all their fleet on Russian registry:
https://www.aex.ru/news/2022/8/29/247175/
Exactly as told by Kremlin and minions.

a trade with cubana? pulling out stored aircraft?

Cardude2 wrote:

Phosphorus wrote:

dcajet wrote:

More smoke and mirrors from Russia, this time from the leisure airline Azur Air. It is studying the replacement (5-6 years down the road) of its Western fleet with Il-96 and MC-21. Where are they planning to get the Ilyushin planes from is a mystery as only 30 were produced and less than 15 remain in service. Maybe Vladimir Vladimirovich will lease a few of his personal chariots out to them?

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/08/ae ... identales/

Azur Air is in a tricky situation
It's finally owned by Turkish citizens, so if you read into air transport rules real hard, they cannot hold russian air operator certificate. So their mechanism of survival includes making sure russian government does NOT look into them too hard. Perfectly malleable material.
As a result, they do things like putting all their fleet on Russian registry:
https://www.aex.ru/news/2022/8/29/247175/
Exactly as told by Kremlin and minions.

a trade with cubana? pulling out stored aircraft?

Aprox. 30 IL-96 were built. Around aprox 15 are in service with Rossiya Special Flight Detachment and the BBC (Russian Air Force), then there are 3 with Cubana, in varying degrees of serviceability, one has not flown in years. Then there are around 12-13 stored in Russia, and who knows what their state is.

And that's it, folks.

dcajet wrote:

Cardude2 wrote:

Phosphorus wrote:

Azur Air is in a tricky situation
It's finally owned by Turkish citizens, so if you read into air transport rules real hard, they cannot hold russian air operator certificate. So their mechanism of survival includes making sure russian government does NOT look into them too hard. Perfectly malleable material.
As a result, they do things like putting all their fleet on Russian registry:
https://www.aex.ru/news/2022/8/29/247175/
Exactly as told by Kremlin and minions.

a trade with cubana? pulling out stored aircraft?

Aprox. 30 IL-96 were built. Around aprox 15 are in service with Rossiya Special Flight Detachment and the BBC (Russian Air Force), then there are 3 with Cubana, in varying degrees of serviceability, one has not flown in years. Then there are around 12-13 stored in Russia, and who knows what their state is.

And that's it, folks.

Technically Il-96 remains in production. VERY low-rate production, but it's still ongoing.
Last October, they were slowly assembling an Il-96-400:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211018145 ... -voronezh/

(original is apparently out there as well, but fails to load, so Wayback Machine is a more reliable way to access it).

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Phosphorus wrote:

dcajet wrote:

Cardude2 wrote:

a trade with cubana? pulling out stored aircraft?

Aprox. 30 IL-96 were built. Around aprox 15 are in service with Rossiya Special Flight Detachment and the BBC (Russian Air Force), then there are 3 with Cubana, in varying degrees of serviceability, one has not flown in years. Then there are around 12-13 stored in Russia, and who knows what their state is.

And that's it, folks.

Technically Il-96 remains in production. VERY low-rate production, but it's still ongoing.
Last October, they were slowly assembling an Il-96-400:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211018145 ... -voronezh/

(original is apparently out there as well, but fails to load, so Wayback Machine is a more reliable way to access it).

Isn't the only one -400 flying (AFAIK) flying for the Russian AF? And isn't she a coverted -300?

dcajet wrote:

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Phosphorus wrote:

dcajet wrote:

Aprox. 30 IL-96 were built. Around aprox 15 are in service with Rossiya Special Flight Detachment and the BBC (Russian Air Force), then there are 3 with Cubana, in varying degrees of serviceability, one has not flown in years. Then there are around 12-13 stored in Russia, and who knows what their state is.

And that's it, folks.

Technically Il-96 remains in production. VERY low-rate production, but it's still ongoing.
Last October, they were slowly assembling an Il-96-400:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211018145 ... -voronezh/

(original is apparently out there as well, but fails to load, so Wayback Machine is a more reliable way to access it).

Isn't the only one -400 flying (AFAIK) flying for the Russian AF? And isn't she a coverted -300?

Ahh, the Il-96-400 numbering confusion controversy...
Long story short, there are some strange shenanigans going on with Il-96-400 nomenclature. One things seems* to unite them -- they are all longer than Il-96-300 (* it's apparent, but no guarantee)
God knows it's a maze. Some users here made comments how this version or that version is THE true Il-96-400. I personally don't know for sure.

Presumably the one being slowly built right now is also "semi-known" as Il-496.
Also, the Il-96M is a Il-96-400 at heart, though with PW engines.
So is Il-96T, but with russian engines and avionics.
As is Il-96-400VPU, a doomsday plane
As is Il-96-400TZ, a prospective refueling tanker.

At least one of each Il-96T (RA-96001) and Il-96M (RA-96000) existed and flew.
Apparently, two of Il-96-400 exist and fly (RA-96102 and RA-96104) for Russian government
Apparently, two of Il-96-400T existed and flew (RA-96101 and RA-96103) for Polet Airlines
RA-96105 is apparently slowly being built up as Il-96-400 / Il-496

FWIW.

Photos of all of these seem to be on this website, galore. With the exception of RA-96105, so it seems.

Apparently with the partial mobilization affecting 300.000 men between 18 and 65, Russian airlines have been ordered not to sell tickets to those individuals, unless approved by the Russian MoD.

https://www.airlive.net/breaking-russia ... to-65/amp/

Flights abroad sell out following Putin’s partial mobilization.
Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense.

All flights from Russia to available foreign destinations were sold out Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” mobilization of the country’s 25 million reservists.

Flights from Moscow to the capitals of Georgia, Turkey and Armenia — which do not require visas for Russians — for Sept. 21 were unavailable within minutes of Putin’s announcement, according to Russia’s top travel planning website aviasales.ru.

By noon Moscow time, direct flights from Moscow to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan had also stopped showing up on the website.

"Employees of at least five Russian airlines, including the Aeroflot group, and more than ten airports received subpoenas. Full scale mobilization and most are untrained. Russia wouldn’t even have the capacity to train the amount of people they have been mobilizing"

I still can't figure out how to get twitter posts on airliners.net but that link is my source.

Russian state owned company Rostec to produce at least 1000 Russian made airplanes without using any western parts this decade (before 2030).
Source:
https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/rusland-zweert-boeing-en-airbus-af-en-zet-volledig-in-op-productie-eigen-toestellen
(sorry, Dutch site and behind paywall)

Airliner1973 wrote:

Russian state owned company Rostec to produce at least 1000 Russian made airplanes without using any western parts this decade (before 2030).
Source:
https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/rusland-zweert-boeing-en-airbus-af-en-zet-volledig-in-op-productie-eigen-toestellen
(sorry, Dutch site and behind paywall)

The original article by Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive-russia-aiming-fly-solo-without-airbus-boeing-2022-09-28/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ru ... 022-10-01/

Russia loses its ICAO council sit

Passengers were ordered off of an aircraft prior to departure, to prevent the FO from leaving the country:

https://shorturl.at/krsRW

Airbus CEO expresses concern over lack of maintenance of Russian fleet while still being heavily used. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... vice-parts

A rare and mysterious Ukrainian-registered IL-76, UR-ZAR, operated by the Ukrainian airline ZetAvia, arrived in Recife, Brazil after a flight from Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE, with a technical stop at Lagos, Nigeria. According to the local press, the jet's visit is not included in the authorized commercial flight record and is most likely linked to a charter with diplomatic landing authorization, with Brazil only as a stopover for refueling and crew rest. Other details were not disclosed, the expectation is that the jet will take off on Sunday, October 30, departing Recife for a destination not yet informed.

https://aeroin.net/aviao-sovietico-mist ... -emirados/

Carlyle Aviation Partners, a large aircraft leasing company, is suing insurers for $700m for insurers failure to payout claims for planes leased to Russian airlines.

https://www.ft.com/content/a0cc050b-f9a ... 94b408734b

The number of passengers in Russia was down 20% in September 2022 compared to 2021 and 13.1% for the first 9 months of 2022.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/11/03/ukraine-crisis-russia-aviation

Old Ural A320 apparently has brakes inadvertently lock up after landing, may not return to service due to lack of spares:

https://aviationsourcenews.com/news/ukr ... t-irkutsk/

Russian airlines are moving out of foreign passenger service systems (PSS) into Leonardo, a domestic system. It will be interesting to see how the system meets industry standards in terms of messaging and e-ticketing functionality. Once sanctions are lifted, the system will likely need to interact with other airlines.

https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/ ... ce-systems

Russian airlines expect only half of the Superjets that were previously assured for delivery this year.

"Russian airlines were promised a total of 19 Sukhoi Superjets by the end of 2022, but a new report says the real figure will be just 10

Western sanctions have made it impossible for the manufacturer to get hold of components for the "Russian-made" jet"

Link in Russian https://iz.ru/1424097/anastasiia-lvova/ ... e-superjet

Spacepope wrote:

Russian airlines expect only half of the Superjets that were previously assured for delivery this year.

"Russian airlines were promised a total of 19 Sukhoi Superjets by the end of 2022, but a new report says the real figure will be just 10

Western sanctions have made it impossible for the manufacturer to get hold of components for the "Russian-made" jet"

Link in Russian https://iz.ru/1424097/anastasiia-lvova/ ... e-superjet

It is even worse than that: only 7 are newly built frames. The remaining 3 seem to be previously used ones.

Well since this invasion of Ukraine has been going on since 2014, it is relevant to this thread regarding MH17 and the verdict for those charged. Sadly, the three convicted will never probably see a prison.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/judges-rule-murder-trial-2014-downing-flight-mh17-over-ukraine-2022-11-17/

.
Russian soldiers glorifying MH17 downing.


RIP to those who perished. Justice isn't always easy.

A bit more smoke and mirrors from Russia: the state will fund and finance 100 engines for locally produced aircraft.

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/11/ru ... -aircraft/

IIRC, Aeroflot alone has 300+ aircraft on order. You guys do the math.

Reuters: Aircraft lessors sue insurers for $6.5 billion over trapped Russian planes

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 022-11-21/

New SSJ delivered to operator with used engines

https://simpleflying.com/100-sdu-equipped-used-engines/

Aeroflot has commenced operations on the Vladivostok to Phuket Route on 11/26/2022, with the first flight being operated as:

SU638/AFL638
UHWW-VTSP
A330-343
RA-73782 (152036)