Basic Element"s Aviakor
Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element plans to invest up to $30 million in its Samara-based Aviakor aviation plant in the coming years, the company’s managing director for machine building, Pyotr Zolotarev, said Friday.
Basic Element, which bought Aviakor in 1999, has already invested $15 million in the plant, where the Tupolev Tu-154 passenger plane is manufactured. The plant’s other main product is the An-140 passenger plane, designed in Ukraine in the 1990s. The An-140 retails at $9.8 million.
BasEl is in talks with 10 domestic carriers to sell 26 An-140 planes, Aviakor general director Sergei Likharev said. Likharev also said that talks were under way to sell 13 An-140s to the Federal Security Service.
Basic Element, which bought Aviakor in 1999, has already invested $15 million in the plant, where the Tupolev Tu-154 passenger plane is manufactured. The plant’s other main product is the An-140 passenger plane, designed in Ukraine in the 1990s. The An-140 retails at $9.8 million.
BasEl is in talks with 10 domestic carriers to sell 26 An-140 planes, Aviakor general director Sergei Likharev said. Likharev also said that talks were under way to sell 13 An-140s to the Federal Security Service.