Putin Signs Decree Creating Russian Aircraft Corporation
Tuesday February 21, 1:12 PM EST
MOSCOW (AP)--Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to create an aircraft corporation, intended to pull the nations' struggling manufacturers under one roof, the Kremlin announced Tuesday. The decree, posted on the presidential Web site, said that the state would own no less than 75% of the corporation's shares, while the government would have until April 1, 2007, to determine private shareholders' stakes in the company. Russia has long spoken of the need for consolidation to reinvigorate an industry that in its Soviet heyday rolled out 700 aircraft a year and accounted for a quarter of the world's civilian fleet. Today, Russia's civilian aircraft manufacturers produce a handful of planes a year and the industry employs less than a third of its original 1.5 million work force. There is little demand for Russia's noisy, fuel-guzzling civilian aircraft and its three main fighter jet manufacturers -Sukhoi, MiG and Irkut - now account for around 90% of total sales.
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