Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charlotte-based reporter Ted Reed covers airlines and airline labor. A new report says the Russian narrow body Irkut MC-21 ...

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved $400 million in state guarantees for Irkut MC-21 development. The guarantees secure Irkut Corp.’s obligations under the loan, issued by Sberbank, ...

Russia’s United Aircraft has carried out the maiden flight of a modified prototype Yakovlev MC-21 which has been fitted with a number of domestically-built systems and components. The twinjet took off ...

ABU DHABI, February 19. /TASS/. Tests of the fourth flight model of the Russian medium-haul MC-21 aircraft will start this year, head of the International Cooperation and Regional Policy department of ...

MOSCOW, September 7. /TASS/. /TASS/. Russia’s MC-21 aircraft will be ready for public viewing in late 2018 - early 2019, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told TASS. He added that the ...