Blessing ceremony for third Polet’s IL-96-400Т ‘Stanislav Bliznyuk’, side no. RA96103, was held on December 14, 2009 after the aircraft acceptance at Voronezh Aircraft Plant.
By Polet's tradition, the company’s aircrafts are blessed by archpriest Boris Uzorevitch, the Dean of Holy Ascension Church of Izbische village, Voronezh in the presence of Polet representatives.
We would like to mention again that on September, 24 2009 such blessing ceremony was held for IL-96-400Т ’Vyacheslav Salikov’, RA96101, and later on November 28 for ‘Valery Menitsky’, RA96102.
Nowadays both Polet’s IL-96-400Ts perform regular flights to Asia and Europe directions, carrying the palletized cargo.