Ilyushin Il-114

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The Ilyushin Il-114 (Russian Илью́шин Ил-114) is a Russian twin-engine turboprop airliner, designed for local routes. In the Antonov An-24 class, it first flew in 1990. A total of twenty Il-114s have been built.

Production of the Il-114 was temporarily suspended in July 2012, with the sixth and last aircraft delivered to Uzbekistan Airlines on May 24th, 2013. In 2016, the company stated that production would be restarted with all-Russian parts, with a new first flight in 2019 and the first aircraft in commercial service in 2021. The decision to end production adheres to the Uzbek government's decision to convert the Tashkent factory to other production lines (namely structural units, household purpose products, spare parts for cars and agricultural equipment), despite Russian interest in keeping the production line and a reportedly high demand prospect for the aircraft. This has translated in an October 2013 announcement by a plant representative, that production is to be resumed after the factory solved financial matters and also due to the interest of a "Russian party".

Variants[edit | edit source]

  • Il-114: The first production model with TV7-117S engines and 64 passengers.
  • Il-114-100: First flown on January 26, 1999 with PW-127H turboprops, 64 passengers.
  • Il-114-300: Truncated variant with two Klimov TV7-117SM engine. Fuselage is shorter, carrying only 52 passengers.
  • Il-114T: Cargo transport version, first flown on September 14th, 1996. Delivered to Zhukovski for certification tests in March 2001. Two aircraft have been built by April 2001. Eight airframes were sitting at the TAPO plant as of May 2013.
  • Il-114P: Maritime patrol aircraft.
  • Il-114MP: Maritime patrol/strike version.
  • Il-114FK: Military reconnaissance, elint, photo builder or cartographic map version.
  • Il-114PR: SIGINT/AEW version.
  • Il-140: AWACS version.
  • Il-140M: maritime patrol, ecological monitoring, search and rescue.
  • Il-140M Agat - Radar-MMS testbed: advanced-technology MPA demonstrator.