United Aircraft has flown a Yakovlev Superjet 100 testbed, fitted with Aviadvigatel PD-8 engines, to the test airfield at ...

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) marked a new era in Russian aviation when it debuted in 2011. As Russia’s first fully modern ...

So far, only airplanes with Franco-Russian SaM146 engines have flown. Even the first import-substituted SSJ-100 variant, used since June 2024 for flight tests of aircraft equipment, is armed with ...

Lukoil-Avia (LUK, Moscow Sheremetyevo) has taken delivery of its first SSJ 100/95SBJ, which is also the final unit of the SSJ 100/95 family with Western-made PowerJet SaM146 engines and other ...

Although a Russian design, it relied heavily on foreign components, with estimates that over 50 percent of key elements were sourced from the US and Europe. Its engine, the PowerJet SaM146, was ...

However, the test aircraft still used the PowerJet SaM146 engine, developed jointly by France’s Safran and Russia’s NPO Saturn. Currently, this engine powers the active Sukhoi Superjet 100 fleet in ...

Superjet’s SaM146 turbofan engines are made by PowerJet, a joint venture between France’s Safran Aircraft Engines and Russia’s United Engine Corporation.

It is powered by a SAM146 engine manufactured by PowerJet, which is a Franco-Russian 50-50 joint venture of Safran's Snecma and NPO Saturn. Russia planned to introduce the new commercial aircraft ...

PowerJet, a joint venture company between Russian engine manufacturer NPO Saturn and French aerospace engine producer Safran, notified its Russia-based partners of the suspension of the contract that ...

Featuring PowerJet SaM146 engines capable of producing 17,000 pounds of thrust and an integrated avionics system developed by France’s Thales, the new regional jet strives for a level of ...