The aircraft designer from Krasnodar Sergey Borisenko has tripled the production of a Cournitic light aircraft by installing a helicopter engine on it. RIA Novosti has been informed about this in the Federal Air Force.
The dialogue of the news agency noted that the Russian designer and colleague tried to improve An-2 for at least 10 years. In 2015, they presented Tr-301-Ngo aircraft without lower wings. In 2017, Borisenko introduced the Tr-301TB-AN-2 aircraft with the Czech M601 TurboProp M601 engine. Now the “corner” has passed a new revision.
For the first time, we installed TV2-117 engines on An-2 aircraft from Mi-8 helicopter. It turned out that the Tr-301/117-Such aircraft like A-3, TVS-2MS, AN-2-100, but completely cheaper and cheaper than three times cheaper, the words of Bor Borisenko.
The aircraft designer noted that the first flight of the new model will take place in one or two months. After that, Corn Corn was waiting for testing and receiving a flight fitness certificate.
Earlier, it was reported that the Ural Civil Aviation Factory (Uzga) will receive an additional 10.4 billion rubles to replace the Soviet AN-2 replaced by Sovetsky's An-2, which needs to be replaced by a project of a light-purpose aircraft. The work development in the contract should be completed before December 17, 2027.