SJ-100: Another big deal to be signed between Russia and India…Talks on sale of passenger aircraft continue, agreement to be reached soon
Moscow. Preliminary agreements have been reached between Russia and India on the purchase and local production of Russian-made passenger aircraft SJ-100 and negotiations are ongoing. This information was given by Russia’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Gennady Abramenkov on Tuesday. “A preliminary agreement has been reached with partners on the possibility of procurement, after which local production of this type of aircraft will be carried out in India. At the moment, negotiations are ongoing,” Abramenkov said.
At the end of October United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), part of the Rostec state corporation, and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), an Indian state corporation, signed a memorandum of understanding on the production of SJ-100 aircraft. UAC chief Vadim Badeha later said that India had taken into account the high efficiency of the SJ-100 aircraft.
The SJ-100 is a short-range narrow-body aircraft being developed under a program to replace imported systems and components. This aircraft will become another model in the family of superjet type aircraft currently in operation. The SJ aircraft made its first flight with Russian PD-8 engines on March 17, 2025 in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Its gradual delivery is scheduled this year.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Russian public joint stock company United Aircraft Corporation for the production of SJ-100 civil passenger aircraft in India. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh had lauded this historic step for the country’s civil aviation sector in a social media post in October 2025.
He had said that the SJ-100 UDAN scheme will revolutionize short-haul connectivity and is a major step towards achieving ‘self-reliance’ in civil aviation. The SJ-100 will be the first full-fledged passenger aircraft to be manufactured in the country. He also said that the manufacturing of the aircraft will strengthen the private sector and create direct and indirect employment in the aviation industry.
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