Russia: Boeing top exec to chair Sukhoi Civil Aircraft

Boeing Commercial Airplanes top executive Kamil Gaynutdinov will become CEO of Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft. In 2003, Gaynutdinov worked at airline UTair being responsible for contracts on helicopter transportation abroad and in 2005 he chaired Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ division Commercial Aviation Services in Russia and the CIS. Ilya Tarasenko, the current CEO of Sukhoi Civil…

Russia: RH to establish service center in Iran

The Russian Helicopters holding is intensively working up an issue to establish an authorized technical maintenance center in Iran with the Iran Helicopter Support and Renewal Company (IHSRC), according to the holding’s Deputy Director General Alexander Shcherbinin. “The Russian Helicopters company is discussing the potential supply of Ka-226T and Ansat light utility helicopters to Iran’s…

Russia: fishing fleet equipped with Gonets sattelite system of domestic origin

On August 25, Federal Government-Financed Institution “Center of Fishery Monitoring and Communications” (CFMC) of the Federal Fishery Agency in cooperation with Gonets Sattelite System OJSC, operator of State Space Corporation Roscosmos on communication systems, launched yet another vessel within the framework of the pilot development of electronic ship’s fishing log, says CFMC. The vessel will…