For 30 years, we have not created a new aircraft for small aircraft. This is a fact that all the tales of “geopolitical greatness” fade
June 6 near Palana crashed An-26 Kamchatka airline, taking away the life of 28 people. It was as if they did not notice this disaster – not to close the student magazine in Moscow.
The age of the deceased aircraft was 39 years; The average age of the air park of this carrier – 30.4 years.
Other dwarf companies that operate critical flights in our Far North and the Far East are no better:
Naryan-Mar united air squad- 28.7 years.
Chukotavia – 33.8 years.
“Polar Airlines” (serve Yakutia) – 36.1 years.
“Khabarovsk Airlines” – 29.7 years.
That is, the following tragedies – excuse me, just a matter of time.
Yes, I know, the age in aviation is not an indicator, and I saw a living old man in Somaliland DC-9; And in the two most high -profile plane crashes of recent times, just new ones, barely with slipways, are guilty Boeing 737 Max 8 (Jakarta-2018 and Addis Abab-2019).
But sooner or later – even if the mechanics again perform a miracle and raise the pension age to the heroic An-26 For another 2 years – the worker of the near -high highways (an alternative to which – except for deer team) will still have to be sent to rest.
And there is nothing to replace it.
From despair, we are offered completely crazy projects – for example, to take unknown glider (frame) An-2 (that very “corner”) and equip it with modern (in fact, like our whole technique, out of the eighties) engines.
Other options:
Turbolet L-410: It is produced in the country of NATO, conceptually outdated for 50 years.
Su-80: It has been produced as much as three units since 2001, the project de facto closed.
IL-114: since 1990, 20 units have been released; Since 2019, production has been resumed in Voronezh; Transfer to customers – the same “polar airlines” – They promise By 2023.
But, given how we are the same They promised to start the Su-57 supplies to the Armed ForcesAnd now on the wing-at best 1-2 “birds”-you must be an integrated optimist to believe that the deadlines will not break. And only news about the arrest of the former head of the design bureau Il For the cut They come on a schedule.
Finally, IL-114 It was developed in the 1980s, again, conceptually outdated for 30 years, cannot land on the soil strip and has a number of other disadvantages.
That is New basic platform for small aircraft (replace An-26, Yak-40 or IL-14) In the Russian Federation, it has never been created.
And to us Already now at least 100 such aircraft are needed to replace Critically retired The park of regional lines, and another 300-500-for the next decade.
But even if a miracle happens and we will be able to put a new car on the stream (IL-114 or any other)-we will never pay off billions of billion costs to develop an airplane with one sales in the domestic market.
It is necessary to be able to not only spend – but also to earn, and only the external market can give the necessary volumes of sales of such goods.
However, even ours “Last ally” Instead of the Russian “Superjet” he buys … The same emergency-hazardous B-737 Max 8.
You can repeat the Crimea of our Crimea a million times – or you can build the most complex Crimean bridge by tying the peninsula to Russia is stronger than ever.
Therefore, please, let’s do something with our small aircraft. Because now we see it only in numerous television series about a happy life in the USSR, and the inhabitants of the Russian outskirts feels lost and deceived.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
