Viktor Livanov, general director of Ilyushin Aircraft Co.
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Ilyushin Co. to Construct Aircraft for China
Russia’s state exporter of armaments, Rosoboronexport has changed the key contactor for constructing 38 Il-76 and Il-78 transport aircraft for China worth more than $1 billion overall. Ilyushin Co. will be in charge of the contract instead of Tashkent Chkalov Aircraft Association, Rosoboronexport decided.
In January, Rosoboronexport will conclude an agency agreement (i.e. the agreement with the key contractor) with Ilyushin Aircraft Co., said a source with the government on condition of anonymity.
The agreement will set into motion the last year’s contract for supplying to China 34 Il-76 MD transport and assault aircraft and four Il-78 refueling aircraft for a total worth of $1.045 billion. The former main contractor, Tashkent Chkalov Aircraft Association will construct no more than 15 planes to be delivered from 2008 to 2010. Aviastar-SP, Ulyanovsk, will make the remaining 23 planes.
Russia’s goverment will appropriate 6.4 billion rubles for this purpose before 2009. The serial production is slated to begin in 2010, and Ulyanovsk enterprise is expected to annually come up with ten planes of Il-76MD or Il-76MF type starting from 2012. The change of the main contractor will put off the contract deadline from 2012 to 2013.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Dec. 27, 2006
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