Second Irkut MC-21 Takes To The Air

A year after Russia’s MC-21-300 narrowbody airliner took to the air for the first time, the second prototype has joined the flight testing program. The second flight-test aircraft (msn 21003, tail number 73053) made its maiden flight on May 12 from the airfield of Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a...

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