MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian aircraft industry will show its latest technologies at the first international conference-cum-exhibition of the Arab and African countries, "Airport - Modern Technologies," in Libya. The conference-cum-exhibition will be held from May 14 to 19.
As the head of the Russian delegation and a representative of the Aerocom public company, Konstantin Fomin, said at a RIA Novosti news conference, "everybody who goes to this conference wants to know whether we need the market whose representatives will gather at that conference."
"We can offer a variety of equipment for airports of civil aviation. We shall also offer equipment for the safety of airports (for checking passengers and their luggage)," Fomin said.
According to him, the Russians will present the system of passive safety during the plane's landing which presupposes the placing of light-returning plates at the runway.
A spokesman for the Aviazapchast company, Valentin Khlebnikov, said that his company sees a great potential for the work on the African and Arab markets. "Those countries have a great number of aircraft which need to be serviced, and we possess a tremendous experience and a basis," Khlebnikov pointed out.
According to him, the Aviazapchast company at that conference intends to put in order its contacts with the possessors of Russian and Soviet aircraft and to appraise the amount of the possible work for the restoration of the outdated aviation fleet.
The head of the department for regional programs, "Aviacomplex Ilyushin," Andrei Labutin, said that the interest of his company in that exhibition was connected with the necessity of ensuring the safety in using the existing aircraft fleet. He said that some 50 Il-76 planes had been registered in Libya, Algeria, Syria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and in other countries of the region.
Since the Aviacomplex Ilyushin is the developer of this plane, "we are ready to render services in tracking and modernizing the existing fleet and are also ready to deliver new planes." New Il-76 planes, he added, cost approximately $25-38 million.
Director General of the Expotech-Tour Olga Khlybova said that fifteen Russian enterprises intended to take part in the conference, including the Kamov public company, which will demonstrate up-to-date helicopters, the Kaskol Group, which is the shareholder of a number of big Russian aviation enterprises, and the Ulan-Ude helicopter plant in Eastern Siberia.
"Each enterprise is bringing to the exhibition its best displays. We have taken with us our up-to-date technology," she said.
