Ilyushin Il-114

The Ilyushin Il-114 is a Russian airliner that first flew in 1990. It suffered from a crash during testing in 1993, due to engine failure.Another test crash with the cargo version happened in 1999. Initially, orders for the aircraft have been slow, but during the 2007 MAKS Airshow Ilyushin announced the signing of a contract with Venezuela for a large purchase of 98 planes. However, according to Agence France-Presse, the state company Rosoboronexport, which has the monopoly for the export of arms of that country, denied participating in such an agreementFact|date=October 2007. Current operators are Vyborg Airlines in Russia and Uzbekistan Airways in Uzbekistan. Vyborg Airlines ( [http://www.aviavyborg.ru/ www.aviavyborg.ru] ) took delivery of an Ilyushin 114 at MAKS 2005.

The Il-114 is a twin-engine turboprop for local routes in the Antonov An-24 class.It is similar to the Saab 2000 in size and appearance. Altogether, 15 planes have been built.

Variants (built and proposed)

* Il-114 - The first production model.
* Il-114-100 - First flown on 26-Jan-1999 in Tashkent. Two PW-127 by Pratt and Whitney, Canada turboprops. 64 passengers.
* Il-114-120 - Two PW-127H by Pratt and Whitney, Canada turboprops. 64 passengers.
* Il-114T - Cargo transport version. Il-114T delivered to Zhukovski for certification tests in March 2001. Two aircraft have been built by April 2001.
* Il-114P - Maritime patrol version.
* Il-114MP - Maritime patrol/strike version.
* Il-114FK - Military reconnaissance, elint, photo builder or cartographic map version.
* Il-114PR - SIGINT/AEW
* Il-140 - AWACS
* Il-140M - maritime patrol, ecological monitoring, search and rescue.

Operators

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*Vyborg Airlines
*Kirov Air Enterprise (3 on order);flag|Uzbekistan
*Uzbekistan Airways

pecifications

References

Related Aircraft

-BAe 748

Related Content

External links

* [http://www.ilyushin.org/eng/products/passenger/114.html Ilyushin HP(Il-114)]
* [http://www.ilyushin.org/eng/products/passenger/114100.html Ilyushin HP(Il-114-100)]
* [http://www.ilyushin.org/eng/products/passenger/114300.html Ilyushin HP(Il-114-300)]
* [http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Il-114%22 Photos of Ilyushin Il-114]
* [http://aviation-safety.net/database/type/type.php?type=317] 2 accidents.