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Sep 29, 2015 (newstodate): Amendments to the EASE certification of Russia's Superjet 100 aircraft will bolster the chances of sales to western airlines.
The aircraft has already been EASA-certified in 2012, but a series of additional capabilities will now be added to the certification, expected to be awarded in October 2015.
Beyond the standard requirements for EASA certification, the Superjet 100 has now also been validated to perform automatic landings on ICAO CAT IIIa airports, use of the function of vertical navigation VNAV, and the P-RNAV, Precision-Area Navigation flights.
Expectations are that with the extended EASA certificate, the Superjet 100 will gain in attraction from operators in the western hemisphere.
So far only Mexico's Interjet has placed orders for the Superjet 100, with 16 out of 30 aircraft delivered by now.
But now the start-up airline Greenland Express is negotiating with the Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance Company to take in the Superjet for flights from 2016 between Greenland and Denmark as well as a number of new routes yet to be announced.
Greenland Express will take delivery of two standard-version Superjet 100 aircraft in 2016, and another batch of three long-range aircraft in 2017-18, with the leasing contracts soon to be inked.
The aircraft has already been EASA-certified in 2012, but a series of additional capabilities will now be added to the certification, expected to be awarded in October 2015.
Beyond the standard requirements for EASA certification, the Superjet 100 has now also been validated to perform automatic landings on ICAO CAT IIIa airports, use of the function of vertical navigation VNAV, and the P-RNAV, Precision-Area Navigation flights.
Expectations are that with the extended EASA certificate, the Superjet 100 will gain in attraction from operators in the western hemisphere.
So far only Mexico's Interjet has placed orders for the Superjet 100, with 16 out of 30 aircraft delivered by now.
But now the start-up airline Greenland Express is negotiating with the Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance Company to take in the Superjet for flights from 2016 between Greenland and Denmark as well as a number of new routes yet to be announced.
Greenland Express will take delivery of two standard-version Superjet 100 aircraft in 2016, and another batch of three long-range aircraft in 2017-18, with the leasing contracts soon to be inked.