Kazan helicopter plant finishes assembly of the second pre-production model of average multi-purpose helicopter Mi-38. In a series on Mi-38 it will be established new turbo shaft engine of Russian manufacture ТВ7-117В.
Till last moment project realization was tightened by company Pratt and Whitney Canada which long time did not start performance of the works provided by the agreement on maintenance of helicopters turbo shaft engines PW 127/TS.
“We are compelled to reconsider conditions of mutual relations with Pratt and Whitney Canada,” has explained the general director of Open Society” Helicopters of Russia” Andrey Shibitov. “Now we consider an alternative variant of use on Mi-38 of the engine of domestic production ТВ7-117В. Henceforth efforts of Open Society” Helicopters of Russia “will be directed on this variant of the helicopter”.
The program Mi-38 is included into a final stage: at present the car is ready for working off complexes of the onboard radio-electronic equipment.
Мi-38 is the average multi-purpose helicopter for transportation passengers and cargoes, performance construction, search and rescue and a wrecking, evacuation patients, geological prospecting carrying out. Helicopter operation is possible in various weather and environmental conditions in a range of temperatures from-50 to +50°С.
