The Ilyushin Il-86 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 w
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-86 in 2005
Il-86 Soviet postage stamp, 1979
Passenger cabin of an Il-86 showing the absence of overhead storage bins in the centre row. The Il-86's sister model (Ilyushin Il-96) also has no overhead storage bins in the center row.
Cockpit of an Ilyushin Il-86
The Ilyushin Il-62 is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As a successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 passengers and crew, the Il
Ilyushin Il-86
…manufacturing capacity. Ilyushin began work on the aerobus in late 1969, initially by assessing the development potential of existing aircraft. An enlarged Il-62 (the Il-62-250) would have had a 30-tonne payload, 259 seats and a 6.8 metre/22 ft longer fuselage: a virtual analogue of the Douglas DC-8 "Super Sixty…
A Russian Air Force Ilyushin Il-62M
Example of the dual-engined nacelle located on opposing sides of the rear fuselage