Beriev Be-200

The Beriev Be-200 Altair (Russian: Бериев Бе-200) is a utility amphibious aircraft designed and built by the Beriev Aircraft Company. Marketed as being designed for fire fighting, search and rescue, maritime patrol, cargo, and passenger transportation, it has a capacity of 12,000 liters (3,170 US gallons) of water, or up to seventy-two passengers.

The name Altair was chosen after a competition amongst Beriev and Irkut staff in 2002/2003, as a reference to the name of the alpha star in the Eagle constellation and 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/ES: Multirole model fitted to the requirements of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
• Be-200E: English cockpit version of the Be-200ES.
• Be-200RR: Projected Rolls-Royce engined variant.
• Be-210: Projected passenger-only model.
• Be-220: Projected maritime patrol variant.
• Be-200ChS-146: Projected SaM146-powered variant.

Variants

• Azerbaijan
  • Ministry of Emergency Situations
• Chile
• Asesorias CPB Ltda.
• People's Republic of China
  • People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force
  • Energy Leader Group
• Russia
  • Beriev Aircraft Company
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Ministry of Emergency Situations
• United States
  • Seaplane Global Air Services