The transfer of all airplanes of Russian airlines to the register of the Russian Federation will be completed in the near future, the head of the Ministry of Transport Vitaly Savelyev said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel. “As of today, 1,285 aircraft are in operation in Russia. Work on their transfer to the Russian register is being carried out on a daily basis. To date, 1,182 airplanes have already been registered in the Russian register, of which 1,127 are passenger airplanes. In the near future we plan to complete this work by transferring the entire fleet of domestic airlines to the Russian aircraft register,” he said.

Thus, at the moment airlines have registered 92% of the entire aircraft fleet in the Russian register, follows from Savelyev’s words.

Most of the airplanes used by Russian airlines are foreign-made, primarily American Boeing and European Airbus. Before the West imposed anti-Russian sanctions related to the military operation in Ukraine, almost all of these airliners were registered abroad, mostly in Bermuda.

In March, the Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) said it had suspended the airworthiness certificates of the Russian-registered aircraft. The Russian government then ordered the suspension of an aircraft oversight agreement with Bermuda that had been in place since 1999. This will “create conditions for the registration of civil aircraft in the Russian state registry” and “enable Rosaviatsia to monitor the maintenance of their airworthiness instead of foreign regulators,” the government’s press service reported.