Ilyushin
The public joint stock company Ilyushin Aviation Complex, operating as Ilyushin (Russian: Илью́шин) or as Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau, founded in 1933 by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Soviet/Russian nomenclature identifies aircraft from Ilyushin with the prefix "Il-" (Russian: Ил-). Ilyushin has its head office in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.
Key facts
Where it builds · 2
Voronezh, Russia
Final assembly line
Il-96
Ulyanovsk, Russia
Final assembly line
Il-76
The largest aviation plant in Russia
Every plant is checked against the company’s own website — or that of whoever inherited its history — and placed in its town. A green dot is a working plant; an amber one has closed.
The story
Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union. Its operations began on 13 January 1933, by order of P. I. Baranov, People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry and the Head of the Main Department of Aviation Industry.
In 1970, the position of chief designer was taken by G. V. Novozhilov.
In 2006, the Russian government merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev under a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.
In July 2014, it was reported that Ilyushin and Myasishchev would merge to form the United Aircraft Corporation business unit Transport Aircraft.
What it builds
Its families in the encyclopedia, with the aircraft we document of each one.
Who flies them
The airlines with the most of its aircraft in our documented fleet; this is not a ranking of its order book.
Identity, founding and headquarters from Wikidata; the narrative from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Plants checked one by one on each company’s own website. Counts are of our documented fleet.
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