MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax-AVN) - Separate units and systems of the first experimental MIG-110 cargo-and-passenger aircraft will see production in 2003, a competent source in the Russian aircraft industry told Interfax-Military News Agency Tuesday.
According to the source, serial production of the MIG-110 will be performed by MIG Aircraft Corporation. In particular, the Lukhovitsy Production and Trial Base will open a new assembly facility by the end of the year. The facility will include at least three assembly lines for MIG-110, MIG-AT, and TU-334 aircraft. Planes will be assembled and tried prior to the shipment to a customer, but units and systems will still be serial-produced at the Moscow Voronin Production Center.
In a response of the question from Interfax-AVN whether serial production of the MIG-110A would be arranged in Austria, the source said that "the talks about the production of the MIG- 110A in Austria have been active and friendly. Austria is in for a government change, but nothing can possibly mar the attitude of the businessmen".
He recalled that the Aviation Registrar of the International Aviation Committee approved the results of a commission that had considered the cargo-and-passenger version of the MIG-110 at the MIG Corporation facilities.
The MIG-110 multipurpose aircraft has a cargo capacity of 6t, or passenger capacity of up to 48 persons. The power plant of the plane is to include two TV7-117S series 2s engines developing 2,800hp each (foreign-made engines may be fitted to export- oriented aircraft). Fuel consumption will be 220g/t per km for the cargo version and 24 g/t per km for the passenger version. The maximum take-off weight will be 19t with 6t of gross load. The cruising speed of the plane will be 550kmph. The operational range will be 1,680km with commercial load of 4,500kg, and about 4,000km with maximum fuel.
The estimated cost of a plane is not more than USD7.5m. The program for the aircraft will pay as 40 to 50 planes will be sold. The potential domestic demand for planes of this class is estimated as 200 pieces.