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The airframe of the imported aircraft SSJ-NEW, manufactured at the production center of the Irkut corporation in Komsomolsk-on-Amur of the United Aircraft Corporation specifically for static testing, was delivered to Novosibirsk. Certification tests will take place in the department of fatigue and static strength of the Siberian Research Institute of Aviation (FAU “SibNIA named after S.A. Chaplygin”, part of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Research Center” Institute named after N.E. Zhukovsky “).
Airframe testing of the SSJ-NEW aircraft is performed to confirm its static strength and determine the conditions for safe operation in accordance with the requirements of the Aviation Regulations. Testing is due to design changes in …