High-flying hopes of nonexistent planes in Kazakhstan

The first aircraft plant in Kazakhstan might lose public funding in the near future. All because it hasn’t produced even a single flying plane.

Sunkar plant owned by KazAviaSpektr was opened in November 2011 in Karaganda with great pomp. The ceremony was attended by President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The project cost more than two billion tenge (approx. $13.6 million) and was included into the state-run Industrialization Roadmap and "Business Road Map-2020". Money from the state budget in the amount of 689 million tenge (approx. $4.7 million ) was allocated to build some of the plant's infrastructure in 2010-2011. Back then, the head of the enterprise Alexander Vaschenko said that the plant had received enough orders to keep working for the first two or three years, each order numbering at least 50 planes.

KazAviaSpektr intended to produce several types of agricultural aircraft: Farmer-2 worth around $145 thousand and Farmer-500 worth at least $200 thousand. A four-seat multipurpose private jet Sunkar was also envisioned. Besides satisfying domestic demand, the factory was to sell agricultural planes to other countries of the CIS (post-Soviet space), particularly to Russia.

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