Other News - 11/12/2009

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft said it will miss the delivery date of the first Superjet 100 that was scheduled for the end of 2009. Aircraft is headed to launch customer Aeroflot, but Sukhoi said this week that it will "not be able to supply its new regional plane, Superjet 100, to customers before the end of 2009." No new date was announced. The Moscow Times cited industry sources who said that a certification delay was the cause of the latest delay. SU had expected delivery in December and planned to take one per month for a total of 30. An official with Sukhoi's parent company, United Aircraft Corp., warned in August that the first jets might not be delivered until 2010.