Reading Time: < 1 minute The first flight of the IL-114-300 turboprop passenger aircraft is expected to take place in September, 2020, Oleg Bocharov, Deputy Minister of Industry revealed to TASS. Series production of the IL-114-300 planes is anticipated to start in 2023 with up to twelve aircraft produced annually. The IL-114-300 turboprop is an upgraded version of the original […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ilyushin, which is part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), has revealed more details about the status of its IL-114-300 passenger turboprop programme, which it says is proceeding towards its first flight “in late 2020”. The IL-114-300, which is an updated version of the original Ilyushin IL-114 that, in the Soviet Union era, were produced […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Assembly of the first four-engine Ilyushin IL-96-400M wide-body passenger aircraft has begun at the Voronezh Aviation Plant (VASO) in southwest Russia. Earlier in November, the factory reported it was taking delivery of some structural components and was starting subassembly of the new version’s wing and fuselage. The design documentation for the complete aircraft is currently […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ilyushin Aviation Complex (part of the United Aircraft Corporation) is ready to start serial production of Il-114-300 aircraft as soon as possible, which will replace the fleet of imported planes used by Russian air carriers for inter-regional flights, reported by Ilyushin press service. “We understand that the regional aviation market is very promising, and in […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian airlines will require from 1,700 to 2,000 new passenger aircraft through 2035. More than a half of this number, from 1,100 to 1,300 units will be mainline airliners, Russia’s vice-minister for transport, Valeriy Okulov forecasted. The government hopes to meet with demand with locally made commercial aircraft. “The average annual acquisitions rate stands at […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Russian government plans to invest RUB20.4 billion ($350 million) in Ilyushin Il-114-300 aircraft and RUB17.2 billion in long-haul, widebody Il-96-400 aircraft in 2018-2019. The investments were disclosed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the first meeting of the newly created government aviation board March 6. Last year, the government allocated RUB52 billion to […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Russia’s first flying prototype of the Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A airlifter has passed the initial phase of its factory tests with the Aviastar-SP airframer. The airlifter has been ferried to Zhukovsky where Ilyushin’s test facility is located, Aviastar-SP’s press office told TASS today. “En route from Ulyanovsk to Zhukovsky, the crew led by Honored Test Pilot, Hero […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The airborne A-100 Premier system will be set on an Ilyushin Il-76MD plane for the first test run due next year. It was dubbed an airborne lab and given the codename A-100LL. “The aim is to test and fine-tune Premier avionics on an A-100LL and then move it onto an Il-476. If everything goes as […]