RUSSIA’S SUKHOI SLIGHTLY DELAYS FIRST FLIGHT OF SUPERJET 100

Prime-Tass English-language Business Newswire
December 25, 2007 Tuesday 12:19 PM EET
Russia

Major Russian aircraft holding Sukhoi Company has slightly delayed the
first flight of the SuperJet 100 regional aircraft, Olga Kayukova,
PR director of the holding’s subsidiary Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, told
Prime-Tass Tuesday without providing an exact timeline.

The first test flight of the SuperJet 100 was expected to take place
by the end of 2007 and mass production was expected to start in 2008,
the company said earlier.

The rolling out of SuperJet 100 aircraft took place in the city of
Komsomolsk-on-Amur on September 26. Kuyakova noted that in general
aviation practice, the period between the rolling out of a plane and
its first test flight is usually four to five months.

As of now, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has firm orders to supply 73 SuperJet
100 aircraft.

In particular, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has contracts to supply 30
SuperJets 100s to Russian flag carrier Aeroflot Russian Airlines,
15 aircraft to Russian airline alliance AiRUnion, six aircraft to
Russian airline Dalavia, 10 aircraft to Russia’s Financial Leasing
Company, 10 aircraft to Italian airline ItAli and two aircraft to
Armenian airline Armavia.

Sukhoil Civil Aircraft is a subsidiary of Russian aircraft maker
Sukhoi, which is in turn controlled by the United Aircraft Building
Corporation (UAC).

It is developing the SuperJet 100 aircraft in cooperation with U.S.

aircraft company Boeing. The SuperJet 100 is expected to replace
Tu-134 passenger aircraft.