On May 14, 2025, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev announced the closure of the LMS-901 Baikal light multipurpose aircraft project, which was to replace the Soviet An-2, known as the "corn-plane". At an extended meeting of the State Duma Committee on the Far East and the Arctic, Trutnev stated that the development had reached a dead end and serial production would not take place.

"You know that we have been working on developing a small aircraft "Baikal". It has reached a dead end today. That is, we are not expecting a "Baikal" aircraft," — TASS quotes him.

According to Trutnev, there is “practically no” small aviation in Russia, and the solution will be to re-motorize the outdated An-2s.

The Baikal project, launched in 2019 by Baikal Engineering (a subsidiary of the Ural Works of Civil Aviation, UZGA), was an ambitious attempt to create a modern replacement for the An-2, which had been produced since 1947. The aircraft, designed to carry 9 passengers or 2 tons of cargo over a distance of up to 3000 km, was to operate from unpaved airfields with short runways. The Ministry of Industry and Trade allocated 3,5 billion rubles for the development, setting the price of one aircraft at 120 million rubles and planning to launch production in 2024. However, the cost rose to 455 million rubles, and the deadline was shifted to 2025. After President Vladimir Putin intervened, the price was reduced to 280 million rubles, but as Kommersant reported in February 2025, the designers made “dramatic mistakes,” including problems with stability at low speeds and the design of the chassis, which meant the plane “needs to be reassembled.” UZGA asked for another 10,4 billion rubles and five years for revision.