Beriev Be-200

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Beriev Be-200
Beriev Be-200
Type: Amphibious aircraft
Design country:

RussiaRussia Russia

Manufacturer:

Beriev

First flight:

September 24, 1998

Commissioning:

2008

Number of pieces:

13

The Beriev Be-200 Altair ( Russian Бериев Бе-200 Альтаир ; ICAO code: BER2) is a twin-engine Russian amphibious aircraft .

history

This machine is a significantly redesigned and smaller version of the Beriev Be-42 . The Be-200 can take off from both land and water. Areas of application are maritime surveillance, environmental protection, fire fighting , passenger or freight transport. For export, the machine is offered with Rolls-Royce or Allison engines instead of the usual Progress engines. The rollout took place in September 1996, the maiden flight of the prototype took place on September 24, 1998. The aircraft received the limited approval as a fire-fighting aircraft on August 10, 2001, the full approval by the Russian authorities took place on December 29, 2003.

The first commercial user of the Be-200 was Azerbaijan , which formally took over the first machine in Taganrog on April 25, 2008 , after a corresponding contract was signed in 2007. Another six machines have been manufactured so far (as of October 2010). Two prototypes belong to the Beriev design office, while the four Be-200TschS produced so far are operated by the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations (abbreviated: MTschS).

In future, export models are to be equipped with the PowerJet SaM146 engine.

Calls

Fire extinguishing operations took place in August 2004 and between July and September 2005 in Italy, 2006 and 2016 in Sumatra, 2007 and 2016 in Portugal, 2016 in Israel and 2010 in the forest and peat fires in Russia .

construction

A Beriev Be-200 in use as a fire fighting aircraft

The fuselage is divided into an upper pressure-ventilated part with the dimensions 18.70 m (length), 2.50 m (width) and 1.90 m (height) and a lower part without pressure ventilation, which houses the fire fighting equipment. As materials are aluminum alloys with increased corrosion resistance and composite materials used.

The machine has a triple redundant fly-by-wire system and extensive avionics with six 15 × 20 cm color screens in the cockpit. The supercritical wings have a sweep of 23 °.

For use as a fire fighting aircraft , the Be-200 can hold a total of 12,000 liters of water in eight tanks under the cabin floor. In addition, six tanks with extinguishing agent additives can be installed in the cabin. Filling the tanks can be done while gliding over water through four water inlets and takes only 18 seconds.

Versions

  • Be-200: Basic version (fewer than ten units built so far)
  • Be-200ES: Version with limited European approval
  • Be-210: planned version with 72 seats
  • Be-220: Military version for maritime surveillance
  • Be-250: planned version as an early warning aircraft

Technical specifications

Three-sided tear
A Be-200 after takeoff
Filling the water tanks during the forest fire fighting in Israel
Parameter Data
crew 2
length 32.05 m
span 32.78 m
height 8.90 m
Wing area 117.44 m²
Cabin dimensions (L × W × H) 18.7 m × 2.4 m × 1.8 m
Payload 64 passengers or 30 stretchers
or 8,000 kg cargo in the cabin
or 12 m³ of extinguishing water
Empty mass 25,120 kg
Insert empty mass 27,600 kg
Takeoff mass maximum 37,200 kg from land
43,000 kg from water
Engine 2 Turbofans Ivchenko Progress D-436 TP with 73.6 kN each
Top speed 750 km / h at 7,000 m
Cruising speed 550-610 km / h
Landing speed 185 km / h
Landing route 1,050 m (land)
1,300 m (water)
Start speed 220 km / h
Takeoff route 700 m of land
1,000 m of water
Water absorption speed 160-190 km / h
Service ceiling 8,000 m
Climb performance 14 m / s
Reach with 7.5 t load 1,700 km
Transfer range 3,850 km

See also

Web links

Commons : Beriev Be-200  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Production List of BE-200 , accessed December 24, 2017
  2. FliegerRevue, November 2008, pp. 22–23, First export success for Beriev BE-200
  3. Russian Fire Fighting, in AIR International October 2010, p. 74
  4. ^ Rostec Modernizes the Be-200 Amphibious Aircraft for Foreign Markets. In: rostec.ru. September 7, 2018, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  5. Forest fires in Portugal: cause of “organized terrorism” - little European aid
  6. Putin sending 2 giant firefighting planes to Israel
  7. EASA type approval (restricted) (PDF; 83 kB)
  8. Be-200ES on the manufacturer's website