PIC: 2nd cosmonaut training Tupolev Tu-204 delivered now.

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https://twitter.com/UAC_Russia/status/1 ... 3367769088

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/119721/

https://www.flugrevue.de/raumfahrt/trai ... transport/

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... 04-458018/

Russian space agency Roskosmos’s Cosmonaut Training Centre
has taken delivery of a second Tupolev Tu-204-300
as part of a plan to modernise the organisation’s fleet.

The centre says the twinjet (RA-64044) arrived on 7 May, just before 16:00,
at the ministry of defence’s Chkalovsky airfield, north-east of Moscow.

Cirium’s Fleets Analyzer shows the aircraft,
a longer-range version of the basic Tu-204, had originally been delivered to Vladivostok Avia in 2008.

Chief of the training centre Pavel Vlasov says the organisation’s fleet has not been upgraded since 1991.

The centre received the first of two Tu-204-300s on 29 March
– this aircraft, RA-64045, was also an ex-Vladivostok Avia airframe.
Both are powered by Aviadvigatel PS-90A engines.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... 04-458018/