M-101T aircraft on transnational flight leaves Tanzania

MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax-AVN) - The M-101T aircraft continues its flight form Johannesburg, South Africa, to Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

"The aircraft took off from Dar-Experts say-Salaam in Tanzania Monday, August 9," reads the Kaskol Group of Companies' press release delivered to Interfax-Nilitary News Agency.

"The flight from Johannesburg to Nizhny Novgorod is devoted to the 100th anniversary of Valeri Chkalov, a great Russian pilot, and is aimed to hail the intercontinental expeditions. Moreover, the aircraft is going to prove again its export designation of the M-101T Expedition," reads the press release.

The M-101T seven-seated turbo-prop aircraft is in production at the Nizhny Novgorod Sokol aircraft building enterprise.