India’s Regional Jet Second Front

India’s state-owned aerospace manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited signed a landmark agreement with Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation to produce the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (rebranded as the Yakovlev SJ-100) in India, marking the country’s first domestic civil airliner production program in nearly four decades. The agreement was signed during Wings India 2026.

The timing of this news is interesting because it falls into a shadow created by the Embraer/Adani news yesterday.  Even ATR tried to catch the wave form Embraer/Adani by announcing today it sees “400+ viable new turboprop routes and confirms that India’s low-fare, fuel-sensitive market is best served by highly efficient ATR aircraft”. The India turboprop story dates back

some time.