The Irkut corporation together with cooperation participants in assembling the MC-21 advanced medium-haul aircraft is ready to produce 30 aircraft annually, starting from 2019.

The equipment purchase issue should be addressed in order to reach the planned production volume of 70 aircraft per year, the corporation’s President Oleg Demchenko said at Thursday’s meeting on civil aviation development.

"We are ready to manufacture 30 planes a year. It all is quite clear, and we know how to do it. Still, we plan 70 planes a year, and so it is necessary to tackle the issue of purchasing equipment," he said.

Demchenko stressed that the production capacities make this level possible. "I see no obstacles here," he noted.

The head of the corporation pointed to the fact that, according to the schedule, there are plans to produce 30 MC-21s in 2019 and 70 planes per year in 2020-2023. Now Irkut is manufacturing about 60-66 Su and Yak planes.