Rostec subsidiary reported the loss of 10 special-purpose aircraft in Kazan – RBK

In 2017, at the MAKS air show, the state corporation “Rostec” and the authorities of Tatarstan signed an agreement on the launch of a pilot project in the republic to create an all-Russian system for managing aviation chemical works. One of its stages was to be the launch into serial production of field aviation complexes for agriculture (PAK CX), including a specialized aircraft for carrying out such work – the T-500. “This development is a striking example of the transfer of military technologies to the civilian sector, which fully corresponds to the goal set in Rostec’s strategy to increase the share of proceeds from civilian products to 50% by 2025,” stated after signing of the document, Sergei Abramov, who at that time was the industrial director of the Rostec weapons cluster.

Under the agreement, serial production of the T-500 should be carried out by ONPP Tekhnologiya, which is part of the RT-Khimkompozit holding, together with the Kazan company MVEN. Partners intended to produce at least 60 field air complexes per year.

In the middle of 2018 MVEN and ONPP “Technology” signed an agreement on the assembly and delivery of an experimental batch of T-500 aircraft. Under the contract, MVEN undertook to carry out work on processing materials, manufacturing, assembling, flying around and supplying ten T-500 units, Technology transferred to the contractor the components and materials necessary for the work, and paid for these works. The estimated cost of one T-500 was 16.4 million rubles. including VAT (18%). At the same time, the total approximate cost of the contract, summed up from the amounts of issued specifications, amounted to 164.4 million rubles. VAT included.

The first ten aircraft were designed and manufactured by MVEN on the leased premises of the Kazan Aviation Plant named after V.I. Gorbunova (branch of Tupolev PJSC). On September 6, 2018, the T-500 received a flight certificate as a specialized agricultural aircraft.

In December 2019, Technologiya applied to the Tatarstan Arbitration Court with a statement of claim against the MVEN for the recovery of over 140.5 million rubles. debts under the contract for the assembly and delivery of T-500 aircraft, it says on the court website. Of these funds, 135.9 million rubles. make up an advance, the rest – a penalty. “Technology” accused MVEN in violation of the deadline for the completion of work and making unilaterally design changes T-500 and demanded, in addition to money, to transfer “the result of work in progress”, that is, aircraft. MVEN filed a counterclaim. In parallel, the company “Aeropraktika” (“daughter” of “Technologies”) went to court with a claim against the MVEN for the early recovery of over 20 million rubles issued for the certification of T-500 aircraft, asking the court to seize the MVEN patents related to agricultural aircraft.

Representative of the MVEN at one of the court sessions statedthat the planes are ready and “they are flying.” “Now their [истцов] the only goal is to take the patent from us, take the planes and not pay the money, ”she concluded.

In March 2020, the T-500 was shown to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who oversees the aircraft industry. The first ten aircraft successfully passed flight tests at the airfield of the Kazan aircraft plant, wrote on Twitter Nikolay Nikiforov, formerly the Minister of Communications, and now the owner of the Innopolis Development company in Tatarstan, which invests in the Innopolis SEZ projects, and the Diginavis company, with which Rostec in 2019 created Center for the organization of the movement of unmanned vehicles.

In August 2021 arbitration rejected Technology’s initial claim against MVEN due to mutually exclusive claims. The technical expertise carried out within the framework of the case confirmed that the work on the assembly of the aircraft was 100% complete, no changes were made to the design. “Technologies” is ordered to reimburse 115 million rubles. actual costs and legal costs for the payment of the state fee in the amount of 27 thousand rubles. At the stage of appeal, Technology has achieved a re-examination.

The examination was scheduled for December 13, Budykin said. According to the ruling of the court, the experts must re-determine the compliance of the aircraft with the certification requirements and the requirements of the terms of the agreement between the MVEN and ONPP Technologiya.

“Representatives of the MVEN company did not come to carry out the examination. Those in charge of the production site could not explain where the arrested planes are now, ”Budykin said, noting that a corresponding act was drawn up following the inspection of the former location of the planes. He also said that Tekhnologiya, in addition to aircraft, now intends to receive over 200 million rubles from the MVEN. – the already mentioned advance payment and about 65 million rubles, which were spent on the purchase of raw materials supplied by the customer (adhesives, varnishes, engines, screws, etc.). “The Technologiya enterprise made attempts to settle the dispute out of court, but they were unsuccessful,” added Budykin.