MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st December, 2018) Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company plans to sign a contract with Slovenian Adria Airways on deliveries of Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) passenger aircraft in the first quarter of 2019, the company's president, Alexander Rubtsov, said on Friday.
Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in November that European banks will finance the delivery of 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft to the Slovenian airliner. Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Adria Airways signed a letter of intent to purchase 15 SSJ100 aircraft in November. The aircraft will be supplied under a long-term lease. An agreement was also signed on the establishment of a joint venture for the maintenance and repair of aircraft at Ljubljana Airport (Slovenia).
"We are working on that. I think that in the first quarter of next year we will sign the contract or maybe even earlier, in February, because according to our plan, the first deliveries are scheduled for April," Rubtsov told reporters.
According to Rubtsov, the company will deliver both new aircraft and the already produced ones. He noted that as of now, the company has accumulated more than a dozen manufactured aircraft that are not handed over to the operators.
