Azimuth picks S7 Technics for Superjet C-check

S7 Technics has completed a C-check on Sukhoi Superjet 100 for Russian start-up carrier Azimuth.

The Russian maintenance provider says the aircraft was redelivered from its facility at Moscow Domodedovo airport in early April and that it was the first heavy check for Azimuth.

S7 Technics says a “large number of labour-intensive service bulletins” from Sukhoi were implemented as part of the check.

Sales director Nikita Belykh states the MRO provider’s technical staff gains experience during every Superjet check “while performing very complicated modifications on this type”.

“We consistently expand our capabilities in airframe and component maintenance…and we keep building up the volumes and complexity of our works," he says.

S7 Technics has been servicing Superjets at its facilities in Domodedovo and Mineralnye Vody since 2016 and has completed nine heavy checks on the type to date, the company notes.

Customers include Gazpromavia, IrAero, Yamal and the Russian emergencies ministry.

Azimuth is based at Rostov's new Platov airport and the last Superjet in its initial contracted batch was delivered on 18 April.

The aircraft (RA-89095) was transferred under an agreement with Russian state lessor GTLK.

Sukhoi's civil aircraft division says the aircraft acquired through GTLK have been configured with layouts of 100 and 103 seats.

It had received its fifth Superjet – registered RA-89093 with serial number 95150 – on 12 March, the 150th example of the twinjet to be assembled by the airframer at its Komsomolsk plant.

Azimuth's latest delivery brings its overall Superjet fleet to eight.

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