ILYUSHIN

RUSSIA

During the early 1920s Sergei Vladimirovich llyushin (died 1977) was a student at the Zhukovskii Military Air Academy, and began glider design. From 1935 one of the most successful Soviet aircraft designers, beginning with
Ilyushin IL-2
IL-2
IL-4 (DB-3) bomber developed from TsKB-26 design, of which nearly 7,000 built. Founded own OKB just before Second World War, though 1933 generally attributed as starting point for llyushin designs. Most famous wartime aircraft was IL-2 Shturmovik armoured ground-attack aircraft, a vital weapon in the defeat of the German invasion of Russia, and of which more
Ilyushin IL-4
IL-4
than 36,000 were built.

Post-Second World War developed IL-12 and IL-14 transports which established Aeroflot's civil airline network. IL- 28 bomber of 1948 (in class of British Canberra) was first Soviet jet bomber, remaining in large-scale use for many years. IL-18 civil transport, which entered service with Aeroflot in 1959, was nation's first turboprop airliner. IL- 38
Ilyushin IL-28
IL-28
anti-submarine/maritime patrol aircraft developed from IL-18 and first flown 1961. IL-20 reconnaissance, electronic intelligence, and communications relay aircraft also developed from IL-18, with IL-24 civil variant. IL-62, 114/186- seat turbofan-powered transport, which inaugurated Aeroflot's Moscow-New York service in July 1968, was Soviet Union's first long-range jet airliner.

IL-76T four-turbofan medium/long-range freight transport first flew 1971 and over
Ilyushin IL-76
IL-76
900 built, with in-flight refueling tanker derivative first flown 1983 as IL-78, and communications relay variant as IL-82. IL-86 wide-body transport first flew December 22,1976; 103 built before production ended. Strategic-command-post version became IL-80 Maxdome. Follow-on IL-96 wide-body airliner first flew December 1988 and remains in production. II- 98 proposed as twin-engined derivative of IL-96. IL-106 heavy military
Ilyushin IL-86
IL-86
transport and IL-112 shorthaul regional airliner projected. IL-114 twin-turboprop transport first flew March 1990 and ordered with production and marketing by Uzbekistan-Russian consortium. Special electronic versions of IL-114 developed for "Open Skies" missions and Russian Federal Border Guard patrol. IL-103 4/5-seat lightplane first flown May 1994 and manufactured by MAPO "MiG". Current name llyushin Aviation Complex, or Aviatsionnyi Kompleks imeni S.V. llyushina.


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