While doing this, the aircraft can fulfill the following tasks:

stop and restrain the spread of the big forest fires by developing the protecting strip due to multiple drops on the fire edge;
extinguishing the small fire and fire which only starts to develop;
delivery of fire brigades and fire extingushing equipment to the fire region by landing on preselected water area of aifield, and return to the base.

A particular feature of the Be-200 aircraft, when compared with the other amphibians, is that it has fully pressurized fuselage, which allows to fulfill a lot of missions.

The aircraft is fitted with flight/navigation and communication equipment allowing the navigation and flight control at all flight phases in adverse weather conditions at any season, day and night.

Be-200 will be equipped with the new avionics complex ARIA-200 which meets the requirements of ICAO category III of joint Russian-American production by ARIA JV (Allied Signal Aerospace, USA and NIIAO, Russia).

The interior for the Be-200 amphibious aircraft firefighting configuration is developed by AIM Aviation Fliteform. Passenger and combi configurations are on the list as well.

While designing the Be-200 amphibious aircraft, the designers took into account the design experience and test results of the biggest jet amphibian A-40 "Albatross" which set 148 records.

Apart from the basic - Firefighting version, the following aircraft versions will be manufactured:

· Transport;
· Passenger (Be-210);
· Search & Rescue
· Ambulance
The aircraft can also be developed in executive version.

Be-200 amphibious aircraft designing is based on FAR-25 requirements that will allow to facilitate the certification in compliance with FAA and JAA requirements.

On December 27, 2000 the Be-200 amphibious aircraft obtained the tpye noise certificate № СШ 118-Бе-200.

On August 10, 2001 the Be-200 obtained the type certificate for restricted category aircraft. № СТОК 201-Бе-200.

Maximum take-off weight, kg 37200
Maximum amount of water, kg 12000
Type of engines D-436TP
- take-off power, kgf 2x7500
- cruise power, kgf 2x1500

Maximum flight altitude, m 8000
Maximum cruise speed, km/h 710
Economy cruise speed, km/h 600
Lift-off speed, km/h 220
Landing speed, km/h 185
Approach speed, km/h 200
Technical range with fuel reserve, km 3850
Average fuel consumption per 1 flight hour, kg/h 1500
Take-off distance (water/land), m 1000/700
Landing distance (water/land), m 1300/1050
Aquaplanning during water scooping, km/h 160-190
Water scooping time, s 14
Seaworthiness, sea state up to 3
Wave height, m up to 1.2
Water reservoir depth during operations deeper than 2.0