Serial Production Of PD-14 Engines For MC-21 Airliners To Start In 2020 - Manufacturer

Serial production of the brand new Russian-made PD-14 engines will begin in 2020, Sergey Popov, the managing director of JSC UEC-Perm Engines (part of United Engine Corporation), told reporters

PERM (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 09th August, 2019) Serial production of the brand new Russian-made PD-14 engines will begin in 2020, Sergey Popov, the managing director of JSC UEC-Perm Engines (part of United Engine Corporation), told reporters.

"Engine 19 will be the first engine in serial production.

We are to start serial production [of the engine] next year and manufacture it in 2020-2021," Popov said.

The PD-14 engine was developed in a cooperation of the UEC enterprises for the Irkut MC-21-300 narrow-body twin-engine jet with the use of the latest technologies and materials.

This is the first completely Russian-made turbofan engine for civil aviation since the 1980s. The MC-21 aircraft is currently being tested with Pratt & Whitney PW1400G engines.