Russia to begin mass production of MC-21

In a speech to the State Duma with an annual report on the work of the government, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced that Russia will begin mass production of new civil aircraft the MC-21, Il-114-300. The MС-21 will be presented for the first time with domestic PD-14 engines at the XV International Aviation and Space Salon in July 2021 in Zhukovsky near Moscow. The first flight of the MC-21-310 aircraft, equipped with new Russian PD-14 engines, took place on December 15, 2020, at the airfield of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of PJSC Irkut Corporation (part of