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The Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F) (Russian: Ильюшин Ил-4 (ДБ-3Ф); NATO reporting name: Bob) [1] is a Soviet twin-engined long-range bomber and torpedo bomber, widely used by the Soviet Air Force and Soviet Naval Aviation during World War II.
Il-6 long-range bomber prototype developed from the Il-4 and Ilyushin's last piston-engined bomber, 1942. Il-22 jet-powered bomber prototype, world's first 4-engined straight-wing aircraft, 1947. Il-28 "Beagle" and "Mascot" medium bomber/trainer, world's first twinjet with an afterburner, 1948.
Ilyushin prototyping facility on Khodynka Field in Moscow. 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.
His single-engined Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack aircraft, the single most-produced combat aircraft design in history (with 36,183 examples), and the Ilyushin Il-4 twin-engined bomber (of which just over 5,200 examples were built) were used extensively in World War II, on all fronts where the Soviets fought.
Aeroflot Flight 214 was a crash that occurred on 6 August 1955 involving an Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft operated by Aeroflot with tail number СССР-Л5057. The aircraft was operating a flight on the route Moscow–Stalingrad (now Volgograd)–Moscow. During the flight, the right engine failed and caught fire.
Ilyushin carried out design work on the new aircraft, which was given the internal design bureau designation TsKB-56, in parallel with the DB-3F (later designated the Il-4). While the DB-3F was a relatively simple upgrade of the DB-3, the TsKB-56, which had the service designation DB-3, was larger and heavier, in order to meet the requirements ...
The Ilyushin Il-76 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12.
4 July 1973 An Aeroflot Il-14M (CCCP-91534) struck the side of Mount Krasnov (33 mi south of Shakhtersk) following a premature descent due to ATC errors, killing all 18 on board. [103] 25 October 1973 A CSA Czechoslovak Airlines Avia 14-32A (OK-MCV) burned out in a fire at Brno-Tuřany Airport. [104] 29 November 1973