ILYUSHIN IL-86 LIMITED EDITION

Ilyushin Il-86 was a four-engine, wide-body, long-range airliner with an all-metal structure in the low-wing configuration of Soviet and later Russian production. The drive was provided by four Kuznetsov NK-86 engines with a thrust of 127.5 kN each. The flight of the prototype took place in December 1976, and serial production lasted from 1980 to 1993 at the Voronezh Aviation Works. The Il-86 planes were withdrawn from the civil service by 2011. The Il-86 was created as a Soviet response to the new generation Western passenger planes from the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, which could take about 200 passengers on board and had a much greater range than previous machines. Aeroflot also expressed a keen interest in the new machine. However, in the course of the design work, there were considerable problems with the use of appropriate engines, and only the selection of appropriately redesigned Kuznetsov engines turned out to be successful. Another problem was the pursuit of high automation of the entire plane, which, however, encountered problems in the form of obsolete avionics produced in the USSR. In total, the entire design of the Il-86 took 10 years. Despite this, the plane turned out to be quite a successful machine, which, however, was primarily used by Aeroflot. It is worth noting that during its service the Il-86 did not record a single crash with passengers on board.