Ilyushin Il-114

Il-114
RADAR Il-114-100
General information
TypeTurboprop Regional airliner
National originSoviet Union
Russia / Uzbekistan
DesignerIlyushin
Built byInitial: Tashkent Mechanical Plant
Resumption: Voronezh Aircraft Production Association jointly with Corporation MiG[1]
StatusActive service
Primary usersUzbekistan Airways (former)
Vyborg Airlines (former)
Number built20
History
Manufactured1992–2012; 2016–present
Introduction dateAugust 1998 with Uzbekistan Airways[2][3]
First flight29 March 1990
Il-114 of the Vyborg Airlines, 2007
Il-114-100 at the MAKS Airshow in Moscow, 2007

The Ilyushin Il-114 (Russian Илью́шин Ил-114) is a Russian twin-engine turboprop airliner, designed for regional routes. Intended to replace the Antonov An-24, it first flew in 1990. A total of 20 Il-114s have been built.[4]

Production of the Il-114 was temporarily suspended in July 2012, with the sixth and last aircraft delivered to Uzbekistan Airlines on 24 May 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.[5][6] 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 open. 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".[7][8]

  1. ^ Константин Михайлов. "В Воронеже завершили установку первых стапелей сборки агрегатов центроплана Ил-114". Newinform. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Uzbekistan Airways takes first production Il-114 turboprop". Reed. 12 August 1998. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Ilyushin IL-114". Aviamarket. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Data Bank". Aero transport. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Russia's new IL-114 aircraft, totally of domestic production, to take off in 2019". Pravda report. 4 October 2016. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Assembly of Il-114 to be launched at MiG facility". Rus avia insider. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  7. ^ Ever. "Last Il-114 delivered?". Take-off Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Uzbekistan plans to resume the assembly of Il-114 aircraft". Russian Aviation. Retrieved 23 December 2014.