Sukhoi Superjet 100

On November 1, on completion of Technical acceptance procedure, JSC SCA and Aeroflot signed the Acceptance Act for the third deliverable Sukhoi Superjet 100 SN95011. The aircraft received the name after the famous Aeroflot’s pilot Ivan Orlovtsev and the tail number RA-89003.

The document, signed by the parties, states that the aircraft is technically sound, it fully meets the performance criteria without any operational limitations. The Acceptance Act also confirms that SSJ100 is transferred to the carrier with a full set of required operational and maintenance documentation.

On November 7 the aircraft will arrive to Moscow and start commercial operation on the Aeroflot route networ

Sukhoi has completed additional static testing of the Superjet 100 for certification through the European Aviation Safety Agency.

EASA requirements had mandated an additional static pressurisation test to the previous Russian certification programme, which saw the test airframe (95002) subjected to greater strain.

The ultimate pressure reached nearly twice the operational level, said Sukhoi.

Further tests have yet to be completed for the EASA approval of the regional jet, according to a spokesperson of the Venice-based marketing company Superjet International.

Sukhoi aims to gain EASA certification by the end of 2011.

The pressurisation test was conducted the Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute in Zhukovksy, near Moscow, at the end of October.

November 9, 2011 Moscow – Aeroflot Russian Airlines puts its third Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft (SSJ100) in operation. The airliner, named after the famous Aeroflot pilot Ivan Orlovets, performed its first scheduled flight SU713/714 on route Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Moscow.

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 MSN 95011 was delivered to Aeroflot under contract with the VEB-Leasing JSC on financial lease (leasing). The delivered aircraft is designed to carry 87 passengers in a comfortable two-class layout (12 - business class and 75 - in economy class).

Aeroflot ordered 30 SSJ100 aircraft in total.

“We are pleased that the intensive operation of the SSJ100 by Aeroflot confirms the superior operational performance of our aircraft. This was achieved due to the efficient activity of Aeroflot flight and technical staff, as well as the proper support by our company and our partner SuperJet International. We see that the SSJ100 is becoming an excellent tool for the development of the Aeroflot regional network. We will do our best to make sure that the growing fleet of SSJ100 meets the expectations of the airline”, noted Vladimir Prisyazhnyuk, President of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft.

Aeroflot currently operates three SSJ100 aircraft serving routes from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk, Kazan and Minsk. In the mid of November these aircraft will also fly on international routes starting with flight to Oslo. By November 6, the two SSJ100 in service with Aeroflot totalized 824 flights and over 1,293 hours. Aeroflot operations confirm that the aircraft perfectly match their requirements in terms of high frequency departures on regional routes.

The international marketing arm for Russia's Sukhoi Superjet expects sales to Latin American carriers will account for 10% of the total market for the 100 seater over the next 20 years.

Superjet International's (SJI) chief executive Carlo Logli is confident will secure more Latin American business over the six months to add to existing local customer, Mexico's Interjet, as it goes head to head with the region's incumbent small jet supplier Embraer.

"We want to star in the kingdom of our main competitor Embraer - it is the benchmark," said Logli. "We have been discussing for a while with a few companies in the region, and we may have another customer in the next six months.

"My challenge is that Embraer is well known and has very good market share, and I am a newcomer with few customers and a few aircraft flying."

He added that he prefers to "remain vague" about the specifics of potential new Latin American customers because "my competitor is very, very aggressive, sometimes it is even in bad faith".

Venice, Italy, -based SJI is joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica and Sukhoi, with the Italian partner holding the majority stake (51%). It is responsible for selling the Superjet 100 to Western markets and undertakes delivery, customisation training and support functions for these international customers. It is also tasked with developing VIP and cargo versions of the aircraft.

The Superjet entered service earlier this year with Armenian carrier Armavia and Aeroflot. Four aircraft are in operation and two more are due to be handed over before year end. Superjet production will ramp up in 2012 when 28 aircraft are due to be delivered, including the first of 15 to Interjet.

The Mexican airline is due to be the first SJI customer to introduce the twinjet at the end of the summer of 2012. It will be the first to receive the Superjet 100LR long-range variant which it will configure in a single-class layout with 93 seats at 34in pitch.

Logli says that that SJI forecasts a market for 1,000 Superjets over the next 20 years, and expects Latin American carriers to take 100 of these. The Superjet's main competitor is the similarly sized E-190 variant of the Embraer E-Jet family, which is of course produced locally in Brazil. Logli says that the Russian jet has an 8% trip cost advantage over its rival thanks to its superior aerodynamics and more advanced engines - the PowerJet SaM146.

"Our aircraft has a smaller, lighter wing than the Embraer. The Superjet's wing area is 10m2 less than the E-190 but offers the same lift thanks to its very advanced aerodynamic configuration." SJI quotes a catalogue price for the Superjet of $31 million, which significantly undercuts that of the E-190 which is understood to be in excess of $40 million.

Interjet is the Superjet's only airline customer in the Americas signed so far. As SJI looks to bolster its penetration in North, Central and South America it is finalising plans for a support network in the region. "We have support centres in Venice and Moscow and spares warehouses in Frankfurt and Moscow. With the arrival of Interjet next year we'll open a spare-parts centre the USA, probably in Fort Lauderdale," said Logli. "We also intend for Interjet to offer MRO services throughout the region."

Although a Superjet development aircraft completed a one-month hot and high flight-test campaign at Toluca, Mexico, earlier this year, the twinjet has not yet been formally demonstrated in the region. "So far we've been concentrating on delivering the Superjet. We envisage that proper demonstration flights will start next year," said Logli.

November 23, 2011, Moscow – On November 21, 2011 the Sukhoi Superjet 100 flight prototype MSN95004 aircraft successfully performed first two automatic landings Cat IIIA with different configurations of the wing high-lift system on the airfield in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. The aircraft was handled by the SCAC flight crew consisted of the Chief pilot Alexander Yablontsev and test pilot Vadim Shirokikh.

These flights marked the beginning of the new series of the development and certification tests for expanding operational conditions of the aircraft aiming to get Supplement to the SSJ100 Type Certificate in terms of the automatic landings Cat IIIA. This supplement will allow to perform automatic landings in the low visibility weather conditions (pilots may not apply controls) up to the moment when the aircraft starts to run along the runway.

The positive results achieved during the conference confirmed the successful commercial operation and efficiency of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100). During seven months of operations (from April 21 to November 20) the aircraft totaled 528 revenue flights and over 1,300 flight hours. The SSJ100 carried over 33,000 passengers and covered distance nearly a million kilometers.

Armavia SSJ100 regularly performs flights from Yerevan to 31 airports in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Western and Southern Europe and Middle East. Flights were performed at 35000 – 39000 ft altitude, at the speed of 0.78-0.8 M. The highest daily utilization reached 16.5 flight hours while the longest distance exceeded 4,000 kilometers on route Yerevan – Madrid. The SSJ100 fully confirmed to be suitable both to regional and to short-haul routes.

Providing international maintenance support has been a central objective for Russia's Sukhoi Superjet 100 programme given that Soviet-era aircraft never had much success outside the former Eastern bloc, partly because of a lack of an aftermarket service network.

To discontinue this legacy, Sukhoi sought a Western partner and formed marketing and customer support company SuperJet International with Alenia Aeronautica, which has great experience in providing aftermarket services for the ATR 42/72 turboprop family, for example. The Finmeccanica subsidiary owns 51% of the Venice-based venture, while Sukhoi's commercial aircraft division SCAC holds the remainder.

The aim was to set up a global authorised service centre network before the regional jet's entry-into-service (EIS). So far, 11 international maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) providers have signed up to the scheme, while the first four aircraft - three to Aeroflot and one to Armenian flag carrier Armavia - were delivered earlier this year.

Volga-Dnepr Technics, Sabena Technics, Budapest-based Aeroplex, India's Airworks, Ameco Beijing, ST Aerospace, as well as AAR and Aveos in North America are among the partners, although the technical capabilities have been mainly built up around the current two operators.

SuperJet International does not want to increase the number of airline-independent MRO companies for the time being to avoid saturating the market and losing maintenance as a potential bargaining area during aircraft order negotiations with prospective buyers.

"Some customers want to develop their capabilities," says chief executive Carlo Logli. "If customers want to have the opportunity to become our MRO partners, of course we want to give them priority."

Independent contractors

Unlike Boeing's GoldCare programme, where the manufacturer takes a managing role between operators and maintenance providers, SuperJet International leaves its customers to deal directly with the MRO companies, with the latter acting as independent contractors for airframe support.

The Italian company's role lies mainly in ensuring authorised service centres are available in the operator's region, providing engineering support, training, special tooling and ground support equipment (GSE).

For the more lucrative component maintenance, however, SuperJet International has established its "SuperCare Plan", which offers different service packages on a fixed flight-hour cost basis, including pool access for line replaceable units (LRU) and GSE, consignment stock arrangements and component overhaul.

Lufthansa Technik Logistik has been contracted to distribute the equipment from its warehouse in Frankfurt. Sukhoi operates a second logistics facility in Moscow, but this is mainly for customers in Russia and the CIS countries. Because of Russia's extensive customs regulations and time-consuming import and export procedures, the location is not suitable as a global distribution hub, says Logli.

A third warehouse facility will open in Ford Lauderdale, USA in 2012 to cover the North and Central American markets. The site opens as Interjet is due to take delivery of the first of 15 ordered Superjets.

An additional facility is under discussion for the Asia Pacific region. Potentially, this will be in Singapore, necessary because part delivery times from Frankfurt are too long. Indonesia's Kartika Airlines has 30 Superjets on order, while Sky Aviation is due to take delivery of the first of 12 aircraft in 2012. Lao Central Airlines has ordered three aircraft, which are also due for delivery next year.

Heavy maintenance

The first C check for the type is scheduled after 7,500 flight hours - or two years in service. Giving the current utilisation regime, this is expected to occur on one of Aeroflot's aircraft in early 2013.

Because of this schedule, no heavy maintenance has been set up yet, says Logli. Training for the respective technical personnel will start in 2012, with at least three MRO providers becoming readily qualified for the check in early 2013, he adds. Any unscheduled work in the meantime will be covered by the equipment manufacturers.

Several issues have been caused by spurious system fault messages from the aircraft condition-monitoring system during the first months of operation. SuperJet International says this is "quite normal" during the EIS of a fully digital aircraft. "They were all solved through software updates or by simply resetting the [aircraft] system," says Logli.

Modifications have also been implemented for the cabin pressurisation system and thrust reversers. Both caused serviceability issues during the first months of operation but have been solved on the current fleet and in new aircraft production. All in all, Logli says that the type dispatch reliability was "higher than expected" at 97%

Admin a écrit:
+97% de despatch reliability
Quel objectif pour l'A380 à l'entrée en serive ? et le cseries?

Admin a écrit:Merci Paul
C'est ce qu' il me semblait
Pour l'A380 faudrait que je farfouille pour voir si ça a été atteint

Dit comme ça : plus de 97% c'est probablement quand même moins de 98 %

The airline estimates that the -8 will require the same number of maintenance hours as the -400, says Holterhoff; for in-service performance, Lufthansa is targeting at least a 98.5% dispatch reliability

MANAMA (Bahrain), January 19 (Itar-Tass) — Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov on Thursday will demonstrate to King of Bahrain Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa the possibilities of the Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) and Su-27 planes.
On Wednesday, he invited the king to the exhibition to see the production of Russia’s aircraft industry. The monarch gladly accepted the invitation. During the first show he with great pleasure communicated with the Russian pilot and was “trying on” the cockpit of the Su-27 plane. On Thursday, he, along with the Russian first deputy prime minister will arrive at the Sakhir airbase near the city of Manama for the opening of the second international air show.
Russia has something to show to the Middle Eastern partners. If in 2010, Russia presented only a sample of military equipment – the Su-27 fighter, then now, in addition to fighters, the company Sukhoi Civil Aircraft presents its short-haul airliner Sukhoi Superjet-100.
“Last November, there was an air show in Dubai where we hold negotiations with representatives of a number of airlines that have shown considerable interest in our aircraft,” Senior Vice President of Sukhoi Igor Syrtsov told Itar-Tass. “Naturally, most airlines are willing to look at this plane, so we decided to use the opportunities provided by the air show in Bahrain.” According to him, logistics offers excellent opportunities for advancement, because unlike other air shows, the plane here is not in a separate parking area, but right next to the chalet where we can negotiate without delay.
At present five Superjets have joined the Aeroflot fleet, and one - the very first - flies for the Armavia airline. It is this aircraft that will be shown to the King of Bahrain. “This plane is the first series one, it has flown 1,300 hours, performed more than 560 flights and has shown fairly good exploitation results,” Syrtsov explained the reasons for the choice. It will be also possible to communicate with pilots who fly on the first Superjet.
The main share of the Middle East airlines’ traffic is concentrated in the Persian Gulf region. According to forecasts of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), in the medium term the population’s mobility will increase, resulting in the growth in demand for aircraft of different sizes, including planes with 100-120 seats. Therefore, by 2035 projected sales of aircraft of the SSJ and MS-21 family in the Middle East will reach some 180 aircraft.
As for military equipment, Russia will show the Su-27 fighters. This time four of them have arrived in Bahrain. The renowned aerobatic team “Russian Knights” has been given the honourable right to end the program of the opening day by their demonstration flight.
The Sukhoi Superjet-100 is a modern, fly-by-wire regional jet in the 75- to 95-seat category. With development starting in 2000, the plane was designed by the civil aircraft division of the Russian aerospace company Sukhoi in co-operation with Western partners. Its maiden flight was conducted on 19 May 2008 and the plane received its Interstate Aviation Committee certification in January 2011 with European Aviation Safety Agency certification expected in mid-2011. On 21 April 2011, the Superjet 100 performed its first commercial passenger flight, on the Armavia route from Yerevan to Moscow.
Designed to compete internationally with its Embraer and Bombardier counterparts, the Superjet 100 aims for substantially lower operating costs at the price of $23–$25 million, securing over 300 orders by early 2011.
The final assembly of the plane is done by Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association, its SaM-146 engines are designed and produced by the French-Russian PowerJet joint-venture and the plane is marketed internationally by SuperJet International.