Ukrainian airline bought Antonov planes in Russia

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The new Ukrainian aviation company Air Ocean Airlines, founded last year, acquired the first two An-148 aircraft in Russia. According to the German resource Flug Revue, the first Antonov aircraft will be delivered to Ukraine in the near future.

Both An-148s were built ten years ago at the Voronezh aircraft plant VASO and still operated flights from Irkutsk, being part of the Russian regional airline "Angara". The owner of the aircraft is the leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co. (IFC).



Moldova acts as a third party in the deal between Ukraine and Russia, since after the events of 2014 air traffic between Moscow and Kiev was suspended. According to the aviation blogger Vladimir Belenky, both An-148s arrived in Chisinau at the end of August. According to representatives of the department, with the help of two Antonov aircraft, Air Ocean Airlines will be able to obtain an operator certificate.

The reasons for the purchase of the An-148 by Ukrainians lie in political и economic plane. Of the 47 An-148 (and An-158) built in the period from 2009 to 2018, only 12 were assembled in Ukraine, and 35 at VASO in Voronezh. Currently, there are only four aircraft of this type in Ukraine.

Until 2015, the An-148 program was run by the Russian-Ukrainian joint venture UAC-Antonov, but ultimately it became a victim of political disagreements between the two countries. While Antonov could not build new aircraft in Ukraine due to the lack of supplies of Russian components, Russian airlines using the An-148 suffered from a shortage of Ukrainian-made spare parts, in particular engines.
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    1. -10
      15 October 2021 13: 39
      Buying up for cheap ...
      The Russian company from which they were acquired is almost bankrupt. They have no Ukrainian spare parts.
      Ukraine will buy all the planes, repair, modernize .. And there, you see, the planes will also work for the Ukrainian army.
      Purchased in the Russian Federation for next to nothing ..
      1. 0
        16 October 2021 20: 14
        They are more likely to be sold to the DPRK at the price of scrap than to Ukraine.
    2. +1
      15 October 2021 14: 22
      patriotic ...)))
    3. -12
      15 October 2021 22: 48
      Urra-patriots will come running and tell how we are in full swing and very successfully import substitution and have already made domestic motors.

      The plane is very good, very technically advanced.
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        16 October 2021 20: 13
        The plane is so-so. The Russian Federation bought it in order to give at least some kind of work to the hakhel. And now they refuse. And the rest will simply sell the DPRK. And there will be only Ukrainians and North Korea operators.
        1. -1
          16 October 2021 20: 27
          Quote: Kedrovich
          The plane is so-so. The Russian Federation bought it in order to give the khakhel at least some work.

          arguments will be? Is it okay that the An-148 was produced in Russia under a license at the very same VASO? And the "series" in Ukraine has not been mastered.

          Quote: Kedrovich
          And now they refuse

          Can you voice the reasons? These are not so much the technical problems of the aircraft as the anti-Russian policy of the Ukrainians and their greed, as a result of which the aircraft were left without spare parts and were exploited due to cannibalism.