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Be-200
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The basic configuration of the Be-200 amphibious aircraft is indended for fighting the forest fires using the fire extinguishant fluids. While doing this, the aircraft can fulfill the following tasks:
stop and restrain the spread of the big forest fires by developing the protecting strip due to multiple drops on the fire edge;
extinguishing the small fire and fire which only starts to develop;
delivery of fire brigades and fire extingushing equipment to the fire region by landing on preselected water area of aifield, and return to the base.
A particular feature of the Be-200 aircraft, when compared with the other amphibians, is that it has fully pressurized fuselage, which allows to fulfill a lot of missions.
The aircraft is fitted with flight/navigation and communication equipment allowing the navigation and flight control at all flight phases in adverse weather conditions at any season, day and night.
Be-200 will be equipped with the new avionics complex ARIA-200 which meets the requirements of ICAO category III of joint Russian-American production by ARIA JV (Allied Signal Aerospace, USA and NIIAO, Russia).
The interior for the Be-200 amphibious aircraft firefighting configuration is developed by AIM Aviation Fliteform. Passenger and combi configurations are on the list as well.
While designing the Be-200 amphibious aircraft, the designers took into account the design experience and test results of the biggest jet amphibian A-40 "Albatross" which set 140 records.
Apart from the basic - Firefighting version, the following aircraft versions will be manufactured:
š- Transport;
š- Passenger (Be-210);
š- Search & Rescue
š- Ambulance
The aircraft can also be developed in executive version.
Be-200 amphibious aircraft designing is based on FAR-25 requirements that will allow to facilitate the certification in compliance with FAA and JAA requirements. |
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Role |
Multipurpose amphibious aircraft |
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Seaworthiness (wave height, m) |
up to 1.2 |
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Water scooping time, s |
14 |
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Passengers |
66 |
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Crew, prs |
2 |
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Ceiling, m |
8,000 |
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Range, km |
2,100 |
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Range with max.fuel, km |
3,850 |
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Cruise speed, kmph |
600 |
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Max speed, kmph |
710 |
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Max amount of water, kg |
12,000 |
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Maximum take-off mass, kg |
37,200 |
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Wingspan, m |
31.8 |
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Lenght, m |
31.2 |
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Engines |
2 Progress D-436TP turbo-prop, 73.5kN |
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Water reservoir depth during operations |
deeper than 2.0 |
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