OREANDA-NEWS. March 9, 2010. In February 2010, AN-148 regional jet, flying under flag of AeroSvit airline, started flights to the countries of EU. First of them were on Kiev-Warsaw-Kiev route. Possibility to perform such the flights is provided by modern avioncs and confirmed during certificate tests of AN-148. As D.S.Kiva, President – General Dsigner of ANTONOV Company, notes: “AN-148 in fact is the flying computer. It meets all modern and perspective norms of airworthiness and safety of flights. In particular, the aircraft passed successfully a cycle of tests in the P-RNAV system of precision navigation having proved the possibility to fly in areas of European airportts with the required accuracy”.

Tests on flights in the P-RNAV system, which are the part of certification tests on European airworthiness norms, AN-148 performed in active P-RNAV zones of Helsinki (Finland) and Bergen (Norway) on terminal procedures of those airdromes.

In the nearest future, the net of international routes of AN-148 will be enlarged.