ULAN UDE TO BREAK 2009 PRODUCTION RECORD
Moscow 29 Nov 2010
The Managing Director of Ulan-Ude aviation plant, Leonid White, has issued a statement this week that the plant will have produced a total of 85 Mi-171s by the end of 2010, an increase of 25% over the previous year.
The Mi-171 can transport a maximum of 37 passengers, although frequently a mixed passenger/cargo configuration is used. Currently, countries from Central and South-East Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America the CIS and China operate more than 600 Mi-171 helicopters in various versions and variants.
More Mi variants (Mi-8/17) have been produced than the total civil helicopter population of the United States.