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The M-500 agricultural aircraft is designed to perform aviation technical work in agriculture and forestry in all zones of Russia and abroad. The M-500 should replace the outdated An-2.

MODIFICATIONS. The M-500 agricultural aircraft and aircraft based on it can be used to perform the following work:

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At the MAKS 2017 air show, Obninsk "Technology" together with the Kazan company "MVEN" presented a complex for aerial chemical works consisting of a T-500 aircraft and a gas station.

The aircraft was created in record time, an agreement between the companies was signed in December 2016, and in July 2017 it already made its first flight. The development of the T-500 aircraft was based on the developments of the MVEN company and Tekhnologiya’s many years of experience in the production of structures from composite materials for space and aviation. The entire airframe of the aircraft is composite; loaded elements such as the load-bearing surface of the wing, spar, rudders and flaps were made of domestic carbon fiber, and the rest of the airframe was made of cheaper fiberglass, which saved significant money.

An engine from the American company Lycoming was chosen for the aircraft, for the reason that service centers for their maintenance are located all over the world, and the aircraft itself is expected to be supplied not only to the Russian market, but also for export. At the same time, the design of the aircraft is designed in such a way that in the future it would be possible to install other engines with minimal modifications.

One of the significant events of the exhibition was the signing of an agreement on certification of the aircraft with the Russian Aviation Register; work should be completed by the end of 2017. The aircraft will receive a type certificate in the first half of 2018. Certification is a complex and very expensive undertaking, but without it, the aircraft is simply prohibited from being sold!

The production of the aircraft was also supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rosagroleasing. The companies expect to sell at least 20 aircraft per year starting in 2020. And the production capacity is designed for 60 aircraft.

The use of an aircraft will significantly reduce the cost and increase the coverage of chemical application in the fields, which in turn will greatly increase yields. According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the required number of such aircraft in Russia is 1000, and 2000 in the world.

On Sunday, July 23, the T-500 aircraft made a demonstration flight at the MAKS 2017 air show, demonstrating its high flight qualities. According to pilots, the aircraft is very easy to fly, it forgives many mistakes, and the design of the landing gear allows it to land directly on a plowed field.

The aircraft also uses a parachute rescue system developed by the MVEN company, which allows saving the life of the pilot and the aircraft itself in the event of an emergency.

The T-500 is a single-seat low-wing aircraft with a tractor propeller. According to Technology, its wingspan is 12.4 m, length - 7.7 m, height - 2.3 m. The vehicle is equipped with a Lycoming 0-540-B4B5-235 engine of 8.87 liters with a service life of 3 thousand. flight hours. The aircraft's cruising speed is 160 km/h, and its maximum flight range is 1000 km. The empty plane weighs 756 kg. Its maximum take-off weight is 1475 kg, the volume of the chemical mixture tank is 500 liters.

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On July 23, the T-500, a specialized aircraft for performing aerial chemical work, took part in the MAKS-2017 flight program.

Participants and guests of MAKS 2017 warmly welcomed the debutant. The T-500 aircraft spent seven minutes in the sky above the territory of the International Aviation and Space Salon, demonstrating its carbon wing to the audience from a height.

“This unique aircraft fits perfectly into the MAKS-2017 flight program, the purpose of which, as a rule, is to demonstrate new types of aircraft. Created entirely from composite materials using the latest aviation technologies, the T-500 became not only the debut of the air show, but also a new word in civil aviation,” noted the General Director of ORPP “Technology” named after. A.G. Romashina Andrey Silkin.

T-500 is a specialized new generation aircraft for carrying out aerial chemical work. The airframe of the aircraft is entirely made of composite materials; the production method was used using hot molding, so the aircraft can be operated in regions with hot climates. The T-500 glazing is made of high-strength material and has a multifunctional coating that protects the pilot from harmful external factors.

The aircraft's chemical spray nozzle system is designed for modern ultra-low-volume spray technology, allowing for economical and effective treatment with the latest types of chemical formulations. Productivity - more than 150 hectares per hour. The aircraft can be used for environmental monitoring (especially during fire periods), inspection of long-distance industrial facilities, impact on hydrometeorological phenomena, treatment of forests against pests, and cleanup of oil spills. The T-500 aircraft is produced by ORPP "Technology" named after. A.G. Romashina together with the developer - MVEN Company (Republic of Tatarstan).

For reference: the T-500 is a single-seat low-wing aircraft with a tractor propeller. The aircraft is made of composite materials using the hot molding method, so it can be operated in regions with difficult climatic conditions. According to Technology, its wingspan is 12.4 m, length - 7.7 m, height - 2.3 m. The vehicle is equipped with a Lycoming 0-540-B4B5-235 engine of 8.87 liters with a service life of 3 thousand. flight hours. The aircraft's cruising speed is 160 km/h, and its maximum flight range is 1000 km. The empty plane weighs 756 kg. Its maximum take-off weight is 1475 kg, the volume of the chemical mixture tank is 500 liters. The aircraft is equipped with a high-speed parachute system for rescuing the pilot and the aircraft. The specially designed chassis allows the T-500 to be operated outside of airfields. The aircraft's nozzle spray system is designed for ultra-low-volume spraying technology, which allows for economical and efficient field treatment. The T-500 can also process fields at low altitude, in which, thanks to a powerful turbulent flow, the drug also reaches the bottom of plant leaves.

The international aviation and space salon MAKS-2017 has finally died down in Zhukovsky near Moscow. Seven hundred Russian participants and almost two hundred foreign ones, representatives of thirty-six countries. The first display of the newest MiG-35 fighter, the Be-200 Emergency amphibious aircraft for firefighters, a Russian drone with an air taxi function, the “freshest” armored vehicles... Against this background, the Rostec corporation presented its first T-500 aircraft (not to be confused with a tank and tractor T-50), which was presented as no less than one of the stages of creating an all-Russian system for managing aerial chemical works. The field aviation complex for agriculture, which supposedly has no domestic analogues (PAK SKh - doesn’t resemble anything?), includes the aircraft itself and a ground-based refueling complex. On the scale of the whole of Russia, the system for managing aerial chemical works also implies the creation of a unified database for recording crop areas, the introduction of the electronic principle of conducting aerial chemical works using the GLONASS system, etc.

After water slides and pools

Signing an agreement with the Minister of Industry of Tatarstan Albert Karimov one of the top managers of Rostec Sergey Abramov, according to journalists, said: “We presented a project whose task is to fill the niche created due to the long absence of small aircraft. These are agricultural services related to aerial chemical treatment of territories. Thanks to the active position of the Republic of Tatarstan, we proposed to locate the first pilot production on their territory.” According to Karimov, developments on the design of the T-500 “were made at one time in Kazan, where the aircraft will be partially assembled.” True, it was stated that the aircraft were allegedly ready for serial production in Obninsk - precisely from the contract between the Obninsk Research and Production Enterprise "Technology" named after A.G. Romashina and the Mven company from Tatarstan, the history of this project just began last year, and it was at the NPP site that this time several contracts for the T-500 were signed.

According to SP-Povolzhye data taken from open sources, Mven LLC is registered in Kazan, on the street. Dementieva. The main activity of a small enterprise is scientific research in the field of natural and technical sciences. CEO and one of two co-owners Victor Ermolenko is also the president of the Parachuting Federation of the Republic of Tatarstan (registered, by the way, at the same address as “Mven”), and the financial director and second co-owner Mikhail Nevelsky, at the same time heads SpasCap LLC (same address, production of helicopters, airplanes and other aircraft), the founders of which are Mven LLC and the Maslova Center design bureau from Mytishchi near Moscow.

According to information on the company's website, its products include swimming pools and water slides, various fiberglass products, high-speed parachute systems for rescuing crew and passengers along with the aircraft, as well as the light aircraft themselves.

At the end of 2011, the media even announced plans to launch an aircraft plant in Kazakhstan for the production of agricultural aircraft produced by the Mven company. The cost of the project was about 11.5 million dollars, the President of Kazakhstan took part in the opening ceremony Nursultan Nazarbaev. It was assumed that the plant would produce 36 aircraft developed in Kazan per year (plus non-core kayaks, tanks for fuel and lubricants, boats), and then begin production of its own design - the four-seater aircraft "Sunkar" (translated from Kazakh - "Falcon").

In the fall of 2014, at an airfield near Kazan, a new agricultural aircraft MV-500 was put on the wing, which became a further development of the “Farmer” - one of the main “Mven” developments, which received a more powerful engine (as before, American-made) and the ability, according to developers, almost sow rice, and not just spray liquid fertilizers.

It was stated that in order to manufacture its all-composite wing in Kazan, a special long furnace had to be designed and built. The following year, the MV-500, which is considered the prototype of today's T-500, was shown at MAKS-2015. Now, again, according to information on the Mven company website, at the detailed design stage there is a comfortable Murena aircraft with Austrian-made engines and a six-seat Kinetic jet (Mven-9) with a take-off weight of three tons.

“We have to prove that the car meets the standards.”

So, the new T-500 aircraft is part of a project to create an all-Russian system for managing aerial chemical works. The wingspan is 12.4 meters, the engines are again American-made, the chassis design does not require airfields. Cruising speed is 160 km per hour, range is up to 1,000 km. The maximum take-off weight is 1475 kg with an empty aircraft of 756 kg. The airframe of this aircraft, designed to become a competitor to ground-based types of special equipment, is made of composite materials, the presence of a nozzle system for ultra-low-volume spraying of chemicals should allow it to pollinate up to 150 hectares per hour, and due to the use of the thermoforming method, it can be operated in hot climates. And in general, representatives of “Technology” assured that the T-500 can be used not only for the actual pollination of fields, but also for eliminating oil spills, influencing hydrometeorological conditions, environmental monitoring, etc.

Tests of the “flying tractor,” as the T-500 was called, have already been carried out; certification should be completed by the end of 2018, and 60 of these aircraft are planned to be produced over the next three years. “Currently, the T-500 specialized agricultural aircraft is undergoing certification, which will allow these machines to be sold all over the world, including to the countries of Latin America, Europe, and also to Belarus - to everyone who is actively involved in agriculture. We must prove that this machine meets aviation standards,” said Viktor Ermolenko, general director of the Mven company. The cost of one such aircraft, according to some sources, is about 250 thousand dollars.

It is curious that at the same aerospace show, Rostec signed an agreement with the Perm Territory. As Kommersant reports, the first joint project should be cooperation between Perm agricultural enterprises and the state corporation in the field of aerochemical field treatment. “Cooperation with Rostec provides additional opportunities for agriculture in terms of processing farmland. Agricultural producers who use our support have a need for this type of service. Cultivation of fields means increasing productivity and agricultural efficiency. We are considering this promising topic, which simultaneously solves the issues of aircraft manufacturing in the country, and at the same time the efficiency of agriculture,” said the acting governor of the Perm Territory Maxim Reshetnikov.

Representatives of Rostec, speaking about the importance of developing the presence of the state corporation in the region, first of all mentioned Motovilikha Plants. But, let us recall, last summer in the article “Are the producers of Grad and Smerch under attack?” We described in detail the situation related to attempts to bankrupt this one of the oldest machine-building enterprises in the Urals, part of Rostec. One of the central points of the article was the bankruptcy claim of Motovilikha, which was filed in court by a certain trading company Nova, registered in one of the villages of the Novgorod region, to which the company allegedly owed more than 30 million rubles.

In April 2017, Motovilikha Plants seemed to have paid off the debt to Nova, but by July it turned out that the All-Russian Research Institute Signal (Vladimir Region) had filed a similar claim about their insolvency - the price of the new issue was 32.1 million. According to the petition The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation postponed the court hearing in the bankruptcy case of PJSC Motovilikha Plants until August 4.

As part of the International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS-2017), the Russian Aviation Registry and the MVEN company signed an agreement on cooperation in the certification of the T-500 specialized aircraft for aerial chemical work, which was presented for the first time at the salon.

The parties agreed to complete the entire scope of certification work by the end of 2017. In the first half of 2018, the T-500 will receive a type certificate and will become the first certified specialized aircraft for agricultural purposes in modern Russia. After receiving the type certificate ONNP "Technology" named after. A.G. Romashina (part of the RT-Khimkompozit holding) and the MVEN company, which are jointly implementing the project, will begin serial production of the aircraft.

“The conducted marketing research confirms the high demand for this type of aircraft not only in Russia, but also abroad. After certification, we plan to begin serial production of the T-500 and in the future reach a volume of 60 aircraft per year,” said Sergei Abramov, industrial director of the Armaments cluster of the Rostec State Corporation.

After certification, we plan to begin serial production of the T-500 and eventually reach a volume of 60 aircraft per year

SERGEY ABRAMOV,industrial director of the Armament cluster

The T-500, a new generation special aircraft for aerial chemical work, was first presented at MAKS 2017. As part of the air show on July 23, it will make its debut flight.

The airframe of the aircraft is entirely made of composite materials; the production method is hot molded, so the aircraft can be operated in regions with hot climates.

The T-500 glazing is made of high-strength material and has a multifunctional coating that protects the pilot from harmful external factors.

The aircraft's chemical spray nozzle system is designed for modern ultra-low-volume spray technology, allowing for economical and effective treatment with the latest types of chemical formulations.

T-500 has a productivity of more than 150 hectares of processed surface per hour. The aircraft can be used to perform environmental monitoring (especially during fire periods), inspect long-distance industrial facilities, influence hydrometeorological phenomena, treat forests against pests, and clean up oil spills.