Ilyushin Finance Co. (IFC) has plans to deliver ten aircraft to its airline customers next year, which is one more than in the passing year.

IFC general director said that the total number for 2011 includes a pair of Tupolev Tu-204 twinjet narrowbodies made by the Aviastar-SP plant in Ulianovsk, one Ilyushin Il-96-300 and one Il-96-400T widebody quads and five Antonov An-148 regional jets, all from the VASO plant in Voronezh. In addition to these Russian-made aircraft, IFC has plans to get one or two Antonov An-158 hundred-seaters from Antonov’s plant in Kiev, the Ukraine, and place them with Russian airlines.

It is also possible that the first Tu-204SM, now under tests at Aviastar-SP, will have its trails completed by the end of next year. In that case it may be purchased by IFC and subsequently leased over to an airline.

This year IFC placed nine Russian-made airliners with Russian airlines, including five newly built An-148s and one Tu-204-100V, as well as three used Tu-214 that were purchased on the secondary market.