OREANDA-NEWS. July 31, 2012. A Protocol on definition of the validation procedures for Type Certificate of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft (model RRJ-95B) in Indonesia was signed in Moscow in frame of the visit of the delegation of the Indonesian Ministry of Transport to Russia. Mr Diding Sunardi, Director Airworthiness & Aircraft Operation of Directorate General of Civil Aviation of the Indonesian Ministry of Transport, and Vladimir Bespalov, Chairman of the Aviation Register of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC AR), signed the document.

The protocol defined the scope and order of the works to be resulted in issuing the Type Certificate for Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft by the Indonesian aviation authority. It will allow the Indonesian carriers to operate aircraft of such a type.

For the time being two Indonesian airlines, Sky Aviation and Kartika, ordered 42 SSJ100 aircraft. First delivery of the SSJ100 to Sky Aviation is scheduled this year.

Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) is a 100 seat regional jet designed, developed and built by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), in partnership with Alenia Aermacchi. On May 19th 2008 SSJ100 successfully accomplished its first flight. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 cruises at a Maximum Operating Speed of Mach 0.81 and 40,000 feet. It takes off from a 1,731 meters runway in the basic range and 2,052 meters in the long range. The operating range for the basic version is 3,048 km and 4,578 km for the long range version. In January 2011, the SSJ100 obtained the Type Certificate by the Russian Certification Authority IAC AR. On April 19th 2011 first production SSJ100 was delivered to the customer. In February 2012, the SSJ100 obtained the EASA Type Certificate. By the mid of July 2012 nine SSJ100s in service with airlines accumulated more than 10,200 flight hours in more than 5,200 revenue flights.

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.