Russian state airline GTK Rossiya, the only current user of the Antonov An-148 regional airliner, has criticised the aircraft's reliability as unacceptable and listed a string of problems including ...

Seventy-one people died in the Saratov Airlines Flight 703 tragedy on Feb.11. The cause of the disaster is still not known but investigators say a technical fault cannot be ruled out. The An-148 plane ...

Rosaviation extended the life of the AN-148-100 aircraft and its modifications by 3 times to 30 years from 10 years. This was reported by the department. PJSC Ilyushin Aviation Complex has been issued ...

Initial operations with the new Antonov An-148 regional jet are proving expensive compared with other aircraft, the Russian launch customer has told a technical conference, and the type needs better ...

Russia's state transport agency Rostransnadzor has ordered the country’s airlines to ground their Antonov An-148 aircraft after one crashed last month. Rostransnadzor chief Viktor Basargin said on ...

Antonov announced (27-Aug-2013) it is progressing with the development of a number of new variants of the An-148/158 regional jet family: An-148-200: Stretched version of the baseline An-148, ...

The new An-148 regional jet made its first international commercial flight, from Odesa to Moscow (Sheremetyevo), for AeroSvit Airline on Sunday, Interfax-Ukraine learned at Antonov Design Bureau, the ...

The Antonov An-148-100 regional twinjet has received its airworthiness certificate from the Interstate Aviation Committee, which governs such issues in former Soviet countries. The flight test program ...

AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines (Kyiv) has launched an An-148 aircraft on the Kyiv-Simferopol and Kyiv-Odesa routes, AeroSvit Press Secretary Volodymyr Haydash has told Interfax-Ukraine. As reported, ...

Reuters A Russian An-148 passenger aircraft crashed 80 km (50 miles) from Moscow 11 February five minutes after take-off, killing all 71 passengers and crew on board. The passenger jet vanished from ...

MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. After extra technical checks that followed a deadly crash near Moscow last weekend, Russia’s Saratov Airlines air carrier has resumed flights of its An-148 aircraft, the ...

The An-148 is a twin-engine regional jet designed to serve the 70-80-seat market. First flight took place in 2004, with type certification by Russia and Ukraine following in 2007. The An-158, a ...