OREANDA-NEWS. On October 16, 2007 a working meeting with participation of representatives of AVIAKOR Samara Aviation Plant was held, the ANTONOV press service reported. Considering the programme of AN-140 regional turboprop as strategically important, ANTONOV and AVIAKOR discussed problems of cooperation within the framework of this programme. According to the plan of AN-140 manufacturing in Russia, approved by the boards of holdings AviaBusiness and Russian machines last week, 10 aircraft will be produced in 2008, 14 -- in 2009 and 20 -- in 2010. Ukrainian enterprises, including ANTONOV ASTC, will have a big role in the production process.

Nowadays, dozens of Ukrainian companies and scientific research institutes are engaged in cooperation on AN-140 manufacture. Among them are Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Ivchenko-Progress State Enterprise (Zaporizhya), Motor Sich JSC (Zaporizhya), Electronprylad Scientific Production Complex (Kyiv), BURAN research Institute (Kyiv), Kommunar Production Association (Kharkiv), Orizon-Navigatsia Production Association (Smela, the Cherkassy region), YUMZ Production Association (Dnipropetrovsk), FED (Kharkov), Ukrainian Radio Equipment NII (Kiev), UkrANALIT (Kiev), Research Institute of Electromechanical Instruments (Kiev), AVIACONTROL (Kharkov), Research Institute of Television Technology (Odessa).

As a consequence of the conducted negotiations V.N.Korol, General Director of ANTONOV ASTC and I.A.Garivadsky, Chairman of board of AVIAKOR Samara Aviation Plant signed "Minutes of the working meeting". The parties confirmed the necessity to implement the AN-140 programme jointly and expressed their intention to extend the interaction over all stages of this programme, taking into account the interests of enterprises of the partners. Successful work of the aircraft in Yakutia airline in the North of Russia explains partially interest of airlines of the country in AN-140. At present, AVIAKOR is completing tests of the second serial airplane to be also passed over to Yakutia.