OREANDA-NEWS. July 27, 2012. The scheduled meeting of the JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Board of Directors was held in Moscow on July 12, 2012. Director General of “Sukhoi” Company Igor Y. Ozar was re-elected as the Chairman of Board of Directors of JSC “Sukhoi Civil Aircraft” (SCAC).

The board of directors appointed Vladimir S. Prisyazhnyuk the SCAC President.

The Company’s shareholders are the Sukhoi Holding owing 75% — 1 share and the Italian Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica Company, holding 25% + 1 share since April 7, 2009. Sukhoi Civil Aircraft was founded in 2000 to develop new regional aircraft projects. Headquartered in Moscow, the Company enjoys several production branches seated in the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Novosibirsk and Voronezh. Today the company employs over 2,000 people.

Sukhoi Superjet 100 — a new family of regional jets — is the Company’s major project.