New SJ-100 will be able to land on short runways

TASS · Aug 03, 2026 · 201 words

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What to know about New SJ-100 will be able to land on short runways

Yegor Popov of PJSC Yakovlev announced technical updates to the SJ-100 aircraft, including the addition of horizontal winglets for shorter runway landings and an onboard airstair. He also stated that key aircraft systems have been successfully replaced with Russian-made components. Governor Dmitry Demeshin reported that 27 aircraft are in production with 42 already contracted.

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What happened

KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR /Khabarovsk region/, August 3.

Why it matters

The new SJ-100 aircraft has been equipped with horizontal winglets, allowing it to land on runways approximately 1,900 meters long, Yegor Popov, director of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur production center of the Regional Aircraft branch of PJSC Yakovlev, told…

Common ground

"An additional airstair has been installed directly on the [SJ-100] aircraft.

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Follow-up questions

What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: New SJ-100 will be able to land on short runways?
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “27 aircraft were in various stages of readiness at the PJSC Yakovlev branch”

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The specific number of 27 aircraft under assembly is mentioned in one source ('SJ-100 Faces Embraer Challenge').

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Claim 2: “The new SJ-100 aircraft has been equipped with horizontal winglets”

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Multiple independent sources confirm the SJ-100 is equipped with horizontal winglets (also referred to as saberlets). TASS and SCAC (Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company) both report this feature.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Aviadvigatel PD-14 (Russian: Авиадвигатель ПД-14) is a wide family of high-bypass turbofan engines that was developed by Aviadvigatel to power the Yakovlev MC-21 twin-jet airliner. Previously know…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviadvigatel_PD-14

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Bali_(SJ_100)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yakovlev SJ-100 (until August 2023: Sukhoi Superjet 100 [SSJ100], Russian: Сухой Суперджет 100, romanized: Sukhoy Superdzhet 100) is a regional jet originally designed by the now-merged Russian ai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_SJ-100

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Claim 3: “42 aircraft had been contracted for domestic companies”

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The claim that 42 aircraft have been contracted/ordered for domestic companies is mentioned in one source ('SJ-100 Faces Embraer Challenge').

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web search NEUTRAL — Sukhoi Superjet 100 — российский узкофюзеляжный среднемагистральный региональный пассажирский самолёт, предназначенный для перевозки от 87 до 108 пассажиров на дальность 3050 или 4600 км. Разработан к…
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100

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web search NEUTRAL — The SJ-100 will be able to land on runways approximately 1900 meters long after another modernization. The aircraft also received an integrated airstair for operations at unprepared airfields and has …
https://www1.ru/en/news/2026/08/03/426308-sj-100-polucil-vaz…

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web search NEUTRAL — Russia's import-substituted SJ-100 is gaining momentum with 42 airline orders and 27 aircraft under assembly, even as a Sberbank assessment suggests its initial performance will lag behind Embraer's E…
https://frontierindia.com/sj-100-faces-embraer-challenge-as-…

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Claim 4: “This includes the windshield wiper system, the engine, the hydraulic system, the aircraft's power supply, and the onboard flight control system”

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While the general claim of import substitution is corroborated, the specific list of components (windshield wiper, hydraulic system, etc.) is not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence.

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Claim 5: “This was not available on the older modification”

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While evidence confirms the new SJ-100 has an airstair, there is no specific evidence provided in the search results explicitly stating that this was unavailable on 'older modifications'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SJ EuroNight (EN 344/345) is a night train service between Stockholm Central Station in Sweden and Berlin Lichtenberg in Germany. The overnight train is part of the Euronight (EN) network, and operat…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SJ_Rc

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Claim 6: “An additional airstair has been installed directly on the [SJ-100] aircraft”

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The installation of an integrated airstair for operations at unprepared airfields is mentioned in one web search result ('SJ-100 gains a significant advantage').

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Claim 7: “allowing it to land on runways approximately 1,900 meters long”

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The specific detail about landing on runways approximately 1,900 meters long is mentioned in the TASS report and one other web result, but they appear to be reporting the same statement from Yegor Popov.

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Claim 8: “all systems in the SJ-100 had been successfully import-substituted”

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Multiple sources confirm the aircraft has transitioned to all-Russian components. One source explicitly states 'no imported components have been left on the aircraft'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article lists firm orders and deliveries for the Superjet 100, currently in production by the United Aircraft Corporation division Irkut (until November 2018 by the Sukhoi Company). It is impossi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sukhoi_Superjet_100_or…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian Empire was the final period of the Russian monarchy. It spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in 1917. At its heigh…
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