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The American Boeing Corporation and the Ukrainian company, Antonov, signed a preliminary joint work agreement for the production of unmanned systems to support Ukraine’s defense industry. The memorandum covers training, logistical support, and the maintenance of drones such as Boeing’s ScanEagle. “We are happy to continue cooperating with the Antonov company to support Ukraine’s development and economic growth,” said the American leader in the global aerospace industry. In turn, Antonov CEO Yevhen Gavrylov said: “This agreement opens up a completely

The Antonov company has received numerous inquiries regarding developing the Mriya reconstruction program, following the destruction of the iconic aircraft by Russian invaders at the Kyiv-Antonov-2 airfield in Hostomel. According to the company, some basic elements for the cargo plane are available, but the new Mriya must meet modern and advanced airworthiness standards and be equipped to handle the list of tasks it will perform.” The amount of funding and the possibility of using the components of the An-225, which

“The state enterprise Antonov proposes to launch the International Fund for the Revival of the An-225 Mriya transport aircraft. The An-225 is the largest aircraft in cargo weight and unique in its capabilities. The plane has set 240 unbroken world records. In addition, the An-225 has the ability to perform horizontal flights of spacecraft and missiles, transporting certain types of cargo on the fuselage,” a statement said. The company noted that in February 2022, during the full-scale Russian aggression against

The Polish company Seco / Warwick SA won the tender to supply a vacuum thermal furnace to the state enterprise, Antonov, with a bid of €960,000, according to GMK Center. The Polish company must supply a vacuum thermal furnace with numerical software for processing castings from VZHM-4 alloy by the end of 2022. The unit will produce aircraft engine parts such as the working blades for the first and second stages of the high-pressure turbine for VI-28 engines.

In the last few months of 2021, three shipments of satellite components have been carried out by Antonov. Antonov, which is formerly known as the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex, and earlier as the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukrainian manufacturing and services aircraft company whose particular expertise is in the fields of very large aeroplanes using unprepared runways. Towards the end of 2021, its AN-124-100 (Ruslan) aircraft has carried the new Turksat 5B, a Turkish telecommunications satellite, from Toulouse, France, which

for certification tests. An-178-100R is a new generation aircraft that can transport personnel, deliver weapons, and light military equipment by landing and parachute methods, and transport cargo. The aircraft is designed to carry up to 100 people, people in need of medical evacuation (40 people on standard ambulance stretchers, 38 people inside seats accompanied by four paramedics), and up to 86 paratroopers. The General Director of Antonov, Serhiy Bychkov said “this is the first aircraft of this generation in a

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine and Ukroboronprom has signed a memorandum in which the new state airline Ukrainian National Airlines, will order five passenger planes from Antonov. According to Ukroboronprom CEO Yuri Gusev, according to the Antonov memorandum, he will build five 99-seat An-158 passenger planes in three years. He added that the state-owned enterprise plans to make the first aircraft in 1 year, reported ukrinform.

“The Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company (KSAMC) does not need to purchase Russian components and intends to follow the path of import substitution”, said the Director-General of the KSAMC, Oleksandr Kryvokon. “The AN-178 aircraft has successfully modernized today with import substitution. Why do we need Russian?” said Kryvokon speaking to reporters.

said the Prime Minister, Denys Shmygal. According to Shmygal, aircraft construction can become one of the drivers of industrial production. Due to the development strategy of the aviation industry, the volume of aircraft sales in Ukraine in the period up to 2030 is estimated at over UAH 300 bln ($11.1 bln). Ukraine has already invested UAH 3.4 bln ($126 mln) in aviation infrastructure.

The production of the AN-178 aircraft for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is proceeding according to the schedule. To date, the construction of the airframe of the first of the three aircraft has been completed, reported cfts.org.ua The plane’s first flight will be in before summer 2022.

Ukraine will be represented at the international aerospace exhibition Dubai Airshow 2021 (UAE) by the military production firms Antonov, Motor Sich, and the newly established company to develop renewable energy technologies, Hydrogen Dynamics Technology. “We see an increase in the presence of new countries such as Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Italy, Belarus, Ireland, and the United Kingdom,” said Tim Hawes, the Managing Director of Tarsus F&E, the organizer of the international exhibition.

Construction starts this year on the first leg of a planned network of high speed, European gauge tracks across Ukraine, Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krikliy told a national infrastructure conference yesterday. At buildout of the 2,000 km network, it will be possible to travel from Lviv to Kharkiv at speeds up to 250 km an hour, completing the trip in “3-4 hours” promised President Zelenskiy. Currently, this 1,000 km trip takes 14 hours by car or by InterCity fast trains.

The first step will be to start building this year of 80 km of EU gauge tracks from the Polish border to western Lviv’s Sknilov station, near Lviv airport. This would allow travel from Poland to Lviv without delays associated with the gauge change at the border. As outlined yesterday, Ukraine’s high speed rail network would radiate out of the capital: Kyiv-Lviv-Polish border; Kyiv-Odesa; Kyiv-Kharkiv; and Kyiv-Dnipro-Zaporozhia. By the end of this decade, the network is to have 39 trains

South Korea’s Hyundai Corp. is ready to start negotiating with South Korea’s government and multilateral lenders to win financing for a major part of track construction and for 10 high speed trains, Eun Soo Choi, Hyundai’s vice president for commercial transport, told the Infrastructure forum. “We are ready to provide financing for several projects,” he said in a video address. He said that Hyundai will spend $2 million for a pre-feasability study for the high speed rail network. Next month,

Ukraine plans to launch a state-owned national airline by the end of this year, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy presidential chief of staff, told reporters yesterday at the infrastructure forum. “We have an ambitious goal of creating a state air carrier,” he said. “Ukraine will receive an understandable state national air carrier that can solve not only tourism issues, but also state issues.”

For domestic flights, the airline would use Antonov jets, which are not accepted in the EU. To promote, regional air travel Tymoshenko vowed to follow through on the government’s promise to abolish the VAT tax on tickets for domestic flights.

The location of a new airport for Ukraine-controlled Donbas is to be decided this year, President Zelenskiy said yesterday. After seven years of war, the government wants to return air travel to the region. “We could open the Mariupol airport, restore and renovate it, but today the military say that it is dangerous,” Zelensky told reporters. Berdyansk and Zaporizhia airports are too far from the Donbas. Other options would be to upgrade Kramatorsk airport in Donetsk or Severodonetsk airports in

Zakarpattia’s new airport will probably be in Seredenje, a farming town of 4,000 people, midway between the region’s two most populous cities, Uzhgorod, the capital, and Mukachevo. Uzhgorod’s airport borders on Slovakia, creating air traffic control problems. Mukachevo has an abandoned Soviet-era air strip. The Seredenje compromise means that about 250,000 people would be within a 45-minute drive of the regional airport.

An international brand hotel will soon replace the long-shuttered hotel Odesa at the city’s cruise passenger terminal, Tymoshenko, the deputy presidential chief of staff, said yesterday. Opened in 2001, the 158-room hotel on a wharf jetting into the Black Sea was first run by the Kempinski Hotel Group. It closed in 2014 with the suspension of cruise ship port calls to Odesa. Tymoshenko said: “There is already an investor. The final stage is underway.”

UAE companies “are talking about a big project – the construction of a large marina in Odesa and a large separate port,” President Zelenskiy said yesterday, fresh from a 2-day working visit to the United Arab Emirates. One company comes to Ukraine this week to talk about investing in river ports, he said. Last summer, Dubai’s DP World bought a 51% stake in the TIS Container Terminal in Ukraine’s biggest port, Yuzhne, 40 km east of Odesa city.