Key facts
- Type
- Wide-body airliner
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Designer
- Ilyushin
- Built by
- Voronezh Aircraft Production Association
- Status
- Retired from civilian service, in service with the Russian Air Force
- Primary users
- Aeroflot (Former) Siberia Airlines (Former), Kras Air (Former), Donavia (Former)
- Manufactured
- 1976–1991
- Introduction date
- December 26, 1980
- First flight
- December 22, 1976
- Variant
- Ilyushin Il-80
- Developed into
- Ilyushin Il-96
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- airliner
- Operator
- Uzbekistan Airways
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Developer
- Ilyushin
- Manufacturer
- Voronezh Aircraft Production Association
- Designed by
- Genrikh Novozhilov
- Image
- Aeroflot RA Ilyushin Il-86 von Wedelstaedt.jpg
- Height
- 15.81
- Length
- 59.54
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- powered by
- Kuznetsov NK-86
- wing configuration
- low wing
- NATO reporting name
- Camber
- Commons category
- Ilyushin Il-86
- Commons gallery
- Ilyushin Il-86
- first flight
- 1976-12-22
- total produced
- 106
- service entry
- 1980-12-26
- service retirement
- 2011-00-00
- wingspan
- 48.06
- maximum operating altitude
- 11000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ilyushin Il-86 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-86; NATO reporting name: Camber) is a retired short- to medium-range wide-body jet airliner that served as the USSR's first wide-bodied aircraft. Designed and tested by the Ilyushin design bureau in the 1970s, it was certified by the Soviet aircraft industry, manufactured and marketed by the USSR.
Developed during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev, the Il-86 was marked by the economic and technological stagnation of the era: it used engines more typical of the late 1960s, spent a decade in development, and failed to enter service in time for the Moscow Olympics, as was originally intended. The type was used by Aeroflot and successor post-Soviet airlines; only three of the total 106 constructed were exported.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iljushin Il-86” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.