Ilyushin

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Ilyushin
The Ilyushin logo
Type	State-owned company
Founded	1933-01-13
Headquarters
Key people	Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin, founder
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Products	Military aircraft
Website	Official website

Ilyushin (Russian: Илью́шин) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) design bureau and aircraft manufacturer (design office prefix Il), founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. It began operations on January 13, 1933, by order of the People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry of the USSR and the Head of the Main Department of Aviation Industry, P.I.Baranov.

Aviation Industries Ilyushin is a subsidiary established in 1992 to act as Ilyushin's marketing and customer service arm.

Ilyushin has developed aircraft for widely varying roles over the years. The Russian government is planning to merge Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation.^[1]

Notable Ilyushin aircraft include:

• Il-2 Sturmovik
• Il-4
• Il-10 Sturmovik
• Il-12 'Coach'
• Il-14 'Crate'
• Il-18 'Coot'
• Il-20 'Coot-A'
• Il-28 'Beagle'
• Il-32 Prototype
• Il-32 Sailplane
• Il-32 Prototype
• Il-38 'May'
• Il-62 'Classic'
• Il-76 'Candid', strategic airlifter.
  • A-50 'Mainstay' (from Beriev), an AWACS variant of the Il-76.
• Il-78 'Midas', an aerial refuelling variant of the Il-76.
• Il-80 'Maxdome'
• Il-86 'Camber'
• Il-96
• Il-102
• Il-103
• Il-114

Contents 1 Gallery 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Gallery

Il-2 Sturmovik	Il-18 'Coot' on display	Il-38 'May'
Il-76 'Candid'	Il-78 'Midas'	Il-96

[edit] See also

• List of aircraft
• List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
• aircraft manufacturer

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site.