The Beriev Be-200 Altair (Russian: Бериев Бе-200) is a multipurpose amphibious aircraft designed by the Beriev Aircraft Company and manufactured by Irkut. Marketed as being designed for fire fighting, search and rescue, maritime patrol, cargo, and passenger transportation, it has a capacity of 12 tonnes (12,000 litres, 3,170 US gallons) of water, or up to 72 passengers.
The name Altair was chosen after a competition amongst Beriev and Irkut staff in 2002/2003. The name Altair was chosen as it is not only the name of the alpha star in the Eagle constellation, but also because "Al" is the first part of the name of the Beriev A-40 Albatross amphibious aircraft, whose layout was the development basis for the creation of the Be-200, "ta" stands for Taganrog, and "ir" stands for Irkutsk.
Variants
Be-200: Basic multirole model
Be-200ChS (as it is more often known, a transcription of the Russian Бе-200ЧС) or Be-200ES (Emergency Situations): Multirole model fitted to the requirements of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
Be-200E: English cockpit version of the Be-200ES[36]
Be-200RR: Designation of projected Rolls-Royce engined variant, since shelved.
Be-210: Projected passenger-only model
Be-220: Projected maritime patrol variant
Specifications (Be-200)
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 32.0 m (105 ft 0 in)
- Wingspan: 32.8 m (107 ft 7 in)
- Height: 8.9 m (29 ft 2 in)
- Wing area: 117.4 m² (1,264 ft²)
- Empty weight: 27,600 kg (60,850 lb)
- Max Take Off Weight (Land): 41,000 kg (90,390 lb)
- Max Take Off Weight (Water): 37,900 kg (83,550 lb)
- Max Capacity (Water or Retardant): 12,000 kg (26,450 lb)
- Max Capacity (Cargo): 7,500 kg (16,530 lb)
- Max Capacity (Passengers): 44 (Be-200ES) 72 (Be-210)
- Powerplant: 2 × Progress D-436TP turbofans, 7,500 kgf (16,534 lbf) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 700 km/h (435 mph)
- Cruise speed: 560 km/h (348 mph)
- Economy speed: 550 km/h (342 mph)
- Landing speed: 200 km/h (124 mph)
- Takeoff speed: 220 km/h (137 mph)
- Minimum speed (Flaps 38°): 157 km/h (98 mph)
- Range: 2,100 km (1,305 mi)
- Ferry range (One Hour Reserve): 3,300 km (2,051 mi)
- Service ceiling: 8,000 m (26,246 ft)
- Rate of climb: 13 m/s (2,600 ft/min) (At Sea Level and MTOW—Flaps 20°)
- Rate of climb: 17 m/s (3,350 ft/min) (At Sea Level and MTOW—Flaps 0°)
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