Moscow, Jan. 20 -- Russia and India have preliminary agreements on the purchase and localisation of Russian-made passenger aircraft SJ-100 and negotiations are ongoing, Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Gennady Abramenkov told Sputnik on Tuesday.
"There is a preliminary agreement with partners on the possibility of purchase, with the subsequent localised production of this type of aircraft on Indian territory. At the moment, negotiations are underway," Sputnik quoted Abramenkov as saying while commenting on India's interest in acquiring SJ-100s.
In late October, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of the Rostec state corporation) and Indian state-owned corporation Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) signed a memorandum on t...