KYIV, Feb 25 – Ukraine’s state program aimed at boosting aviation industry through 2030 will help maintain the country’s leadership position in aircraft engine manufacturing, Ihor Kravchenko, the head of Ivchenko-Progress, aircraft engine design bureau, said.

"The program is aimed at the development of high technology and the aviation industry," Kravchenko said.

"Over the next two years in the field of aircraft engine building, Ivchenko-Progress plans to certify the D-436-148FM engine for the An-178 aircraft, as well as for the development of a line of aircraft to further improve the An-148 and An-158 aircraft. I think that the points of this program will be successfully completed, since we have been working on the engine for a long time, and the An-178 is already flying with experimental engines. We need to complete the work on this engine and carry out its certification," the director of the Ivchenko-Progress enterprise said.