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Dassault Aviation has confirmed the commissioning of the first state-of-the-art twin-engine Falcon 6X business jet. Simultaneous certification in the USA and Europe completed a flight test campaign lasting more than two years, during which three experimental aircraft flew 1,500 hours. Despite weak results in the first half of the year, which, according to Trappier, was marked by an "ongoing [difficult] supply chain situation" and difficulties related to recruitment, Dassault Aviation maintains its supply forecast for 2023 and expects to transfer 35 Falcon aircraft to customers, compared with 32 business jets in 2022 the year and the 30th – in 2021.

New workshops are being built under the program to increase mass production of the MS-21 at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant. Mechanical, aggregate-assembly and other industries will be expanded.

Eric Trapier, Executive Director of Dassault Aviation (France), acknowledged the negative impact of EU anti-Russian sanctions on European industry, especially in the energy sector. Dassault Aviation delivered 32 Falcon business jets last year, lower than its forecast of 35, but two more than it delivered to customers in 2021, according to its preliminary financial report.

In St. Petersburg, the reconstruction of the Levashovo airport runway has been completed. The first aircraft to land here after the opening was the transport An-72. As reported by «Delovoy Peterburg», the first stage of the Levashovo airfield was planned to be launched in December 2023. By this time, an air terminal and a small terminal will be built there. The second stage will be commissioned in December 2024.

The Canadian company Bombardier announced delivery of the 50th Global 7500 business jet. In 2020, Bombardier delivered 35 Global 7500 business jets. The fourth quarter was particularly record-breaking, when customers received sixteen new aircraft of this version. The number of orders for aircraft of this model is steadily growing, which indicates a great interest from customers.

The Canadian company Bombardier has supplied the 350th Challenger 350 business jet to the customer. Bombardier estimates that this model accounts for 43% of the super midsize business jet market. Nowadays their main competitors are the Embraer Praetor 600 and Cessna Citation Longitude. As of May 31, the total flight experience of the overall operational fleet Challenger 350 reached 648 thousand hours, the number of takeoffs and landings exceeded 383 thousand.

The new extra-long-range Gulfstream G700 business jet makes its first flight. Gulfstream says the G700 has “the tallest, widest and longest cabin ever in the industry” with 20 panoramic oval windows and up to five zones of interior space. The delivery deadline is 2022.

The MSKY Company exhibits one of the most popular models in the wide-body aircraft segment - the ACJ319 business jet at the RUBAE static display for the first time. The operator of the presented aircraft with registration number OE-LJG is the Austrian business operator MJet, engaged in VVIP class charter service. This aircraft has already been demonstrated at Vnukovo-3 as part of the JetExpo 2016 exhibition. The board is designed for comfortable accommodation of 19 people. The passenger compartment is divided into several areas: a meeting area, a living room, and a spacious bedroom with a shower. In total, about 200 Airbus business jets are operated in the world.

The Embraer Praetor 600 business jet received a type certificate. The Praetor 600 is now the longest-range aircraft in its class, capable of non-stop flights between London and New York, Sao Paulo and Miami, Dubai and London. The flight distance of this aircraft is 7.4 thousand km. This super-midsize business jet was first presented in November 2018. “The Praetor 600 exceeds the [planned] characteristics and expectations and is ahead of schedule,” said Paulo Cesar de Sousa e Silva, the Embraer CEO.

A terminal for domestic lines is being reconstructed at the Vnukovo-3. The Domestic Air Lines (DAL) terminal at the Vnukovo-3 Business Aviation Center will be reconstructed. According to the airport press-cutting service, the terminal area will more than double - to 1116 m2. The new terminal is able to improve the service quality for the significantly increased passenger traffic since the putting into operation of the old terminal, in general, to increase the attractiveness of the Vnukovo-3 in the eyes of potential clients,” said Georgii Sharov, Managing Director of JSC Business Aviation Centre, an operator of the Vnukovo- 3.

The MSKY Company exhibits one of the most popular models in the wide-body aircraft segment - the ACJ319 business jet at the RUBAE static display for the first time. The operator of the presented aircraft with registration number OE-LJG is the Austrian business operator MJet, engaged in VVIP class charter service. This aircraft has already been demonstrated at Vnukovo-3 as part of the JetExpo 2016 exhibition. The board is designed for comfortable accommodation of 19 people. The passenger compartment is divided into several areas: a meeting area, a living room, and a spacious bedroom with a shower. In total, about 200 Airbus business jets are operated in the world.

In December 2018, MSKY will arrange its fifteenth pilgrim tour. The first flight carrying palmers was operated in 2011. Since then around three thousand pilgrims from eighty-five eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church have made the pilgrimage to the sacred place. Considering the lack of air link between Moscow and Bari the popularity of these charter flights among Russian followers is growing each year.

MSKY General director Igor Bublovsky took part in public discussion “Business aviation service realization” during 9th International Forum of Business Aviation.

MSKY will take part in 11th International Business Aviation Show – Jet Expo 2016 will be held at the Centre of Business Aviation Vnukovo- 3 from 8 to 10 September 2016.