India's Aviotech set to launch corporate Superjet

Indian corporate and defence aerospace specialist Aviotech is poised to become a launch customer for the business aircraft version of the Sukhoi Superjet 100.
Sukhoi detailed plans for a corporate variant of the twinjet - to be known as the Sukhoi Business Jet (SBJ) - during the Paris air show, and Hyderabad-based Aviotech signed a letter of intent for up to 20 of the type, of which 10 would be firm, at the MAKS air show in Moscow.
Aviotech has a corporate jet services division and is conducting studies on the range of products which it could place on the SBJ, having determined that there is a market for high-level charters with services beyond those normally offered on executive jets.
Sukhoi would deliver the aircraft as green airframes, and they would be completed by Aviotech at a new centre in Hyderabad.
"Each aircraft will be tailored to particular client requirements, but with the intention of dividing the aircraft into several unique zones," said a source familiar with the SBJ agreement.
These zones would include a social area with a bar, an entertainment and cinema area, dining and meeting facilities, a shower and a private state room with sleeping quarters.
24/08/11 David Kaminski-Morrow/Flight Global

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