Tu-136 is a regional turboprop cargo-and-passenger aircraft developed in the Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex. A.N. Tupolev. The aircraft is designed to carry 53 passengers or 5 tons of cargo, equipped with two engines TV7-117SF (capacity of 2800 hp). The aircraft has the ability to use liquefied natural gas as fuel. At present, the technical proposals for the project have been approved, and at the Samara Scientific and Technical Complex. Kuznetsova is upgrading the TV7-117 engine to work on gas fuel. Production of the aircraft is scheduled to begin in 2003. According to the Deputy Technical Director of ANTK. Tupolev Andrey Pukhov, it will take at least 5 years to build the first demonstration 5 Tu-136 aircraft with TV7-117 engines operating on liquefied natural gas, and for the construction of a series of 200 such aircraft - 9 years. The options for the mass production of the Tu-136 in Samara or Saratov are considered.
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