ST. PETERSBURG, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - ItAli Airlines S.p.A., which has signed a contract with Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker for 10 Superjet regional airliners, will receive the first planes next year, a Russian government spokesman said on Thursday.
The Superjet 100 project is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by the state-owned Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company in cooperation with U.S. and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.
International certification is expected by mid-2010.
Sukhoi earlier said that first planes will be delivered in 2011.
Sukhoi, part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), plans to manufacture at least 700 Superjet 100s, and intends to sell 35% of them to North America, 25% to Europe, 10% to Latin America, and 7% to Russia and China.
