Superjet International at ERA General Assembly 2007

SuperJet International, the new Alenia Aeronautica – Sukhoi Company joint venture, participates at ERA General Assembly from October 17 to 19, in Athens, Greece.

On October 18, the Company’s newly appointed CEO, Alessandro Franzoni and the SVP Commercial, Paolo Revelli Beaumont, will illustrate the SuperJet International’s targets, market opportunities and activities, focused on marketing and sales on western markets and worldwide after sales support of the Superjet 100 regional aircraft family.

The Superjet 100 regional jet aircraft is the most modern and ecological regional 95-seat jet available today on the market, an aircraft able to meet the most stringent requirements of the international operators.

The first prototype achieved its hangar roll-out last September 26 at the Russian plant at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Static tests are currently underway on the aircraft at TsAGI, the Russian Central Institute of Aero-Hydrodynamics and in the next two months the prototype aircraft will be ready to start the test flights: the Superjet 100 first take-off will take place by the end of 2007 and the first aircraft will be delivered to Aeroflot, the programme’s launch customer, in November 2008.

Today Superjet 100 has a total of 73 orders and they are expected to reach 100 by the end of the year.

 

The Superjet 100, a family of new generation regional 75-100-seat jet, designed and developed by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) in collaboration with Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, represents the most important industrial programme between Europe and the Russian Federation in the civil aviation sector.

The Superjet 100 programme, which is presently based on the 95-seat model, with two versions with greater and lesser capacity respectively under research, was launched in 2001.

The potential market anticipated for the coming 20 years for aircraft in the regional jet class with 75-100 seats is 5,400 aircraft, with the Superjet 100 family which could win approximately 1,200 orders in the first 20 years of the programme.

All models in the Superjet 100 family will have the same wing span and the same engine: two SaM 146 turbo-reactors from PowerJet, a joint venture between SNECMA (France) and NPO Saturn (Russia), which was set up with the purpose of developing this new engine.

The Superjet 100 flies at a cruising speed of Mach 0.78, reaches an operating cruise altitude of 41,000 feet and takes off over 1,520 m of runway. The landing run for both versions is 1,300 m. The aircraft’s fuel distance is 4,500 km for the 75-seat version and 4,400 km for the 95-seat version.

 

Headquartered in Venice, Italy, Superjet International is the new joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica (51%) and Sukhoi Company (49%) created for marketing and sales on western markets and worldwide after sales of the Superjet 100, the next generation regional jet aircraft designed and developed by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (75% Sukhoi Company, 25% plus 1 share Alenia Aeronautica).

Leveraging on Alenia Aeronautica’s outstanding experience in regional aircraft marketing and after sales achieved thanks to ATR, Superjet International’s mission is to promote, sell, customise and delivery the Superjet 100 in

Europe, Mediterranean area, North and South America, Africa, Oceania and Japan, while promotion and sales in the Russian, CIS countries’, Chinese, Indian, Middle East and South-East Asian markets will be carried out by SCAC. The company is also responsible for the design, development and manufacturing of VIP and cargo versions of the aircraft.

To meet the highest requirements of the worldwide operators, Moscow will shortly be a home for the new joint venture’s first branch and, later on, additional branches will be based in the most strategic markets.