On this day in aviation history, 62 years ago (January 3, 1963), the first flight of the Ilyushin IL-62 took place. Known by NATO as the Classic, the Il-62 is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner ...

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) has signed an agreement with Ilyushin Aviation Complex to modernize the Ilyushin Il-96. The new version, Il-96-400M, will be a development of the Il-96-300, UAC ...

When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets done no matter how dumb the concept is in theory. This authoritarian approach to the ...

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has resumed flight trials of the Ilyushin Il-114-300 passenger turboprop. The new prototype, the first Il-114-300 to be assembled in Russia, performed a ...

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On this day in aviation history, 82 years ago (April 18, 1944), the first flight of the Ilyushin Il-10 took place. Known by NATO as the Beast, the Il-10 was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft that was ...