By the early eighties, the AN-24, which was considered a major passenger plane USSR and widely used on domestic routes, is obsolete.Besides the park these cars began to decline rapidly due to the development of the resource.It adds such factors as increased volumes of air transport - both passenger and cargo.An-24 does not meet the requirements and needs of modern times.He needed an urgent and high-quality replacement.
In 1982 OKB.Ilyushin, headed at that time chief designer GV Novozhilov, took the initiative to built a new type of passenger aircraft IL-114, for use on local airlines.The foundation for this machine was to be thirty years of experience operating a variety of modifications of IL-14.
This initiative was supported by the Minister of Civil Aviation, and this was the beginning of the design of local aircraft IL-114.Design work lasted five long years since they were conducted in parallel with the very time-consuming development of the main civil aircraft widebody long-range Il-96-300.
Only in July 1987 was constructed a full-scale model cars, which have been reproduced almost all the systems of the future IL-114.The most fully reflected in the interior layout found at the sixty seats and detail was modeled cabin crew.After detailed and careful consideration prototyping Commission submitted draft IL-114 was approved by a decision to start its serial production.
leading enterprise for the production of this car was appointed Aviation Production Association in Tashkent, before it released many models of "Ilyushin".The second series of the enterprise have chosen Moscow aircraft factory "Banner of Labor", leading its history since 1909.
aircraft constructed from high-strength aluminum and titanium alloys, as well as from a variety of composite and non-metallic materials.The fuel system of the aircraft includes two caisson-tank located in the wing.Their total capacity is 8360 liters.
key design feature of this car is that it is designed as schematically cantilever monoplane with a wing low position.On the plane, a pair of turboprops TV7-117S.Screw diameter of 3.6 meters, and the take-off power of the engine is 2.5 thousand liters.from.
first flight of the model with passengers on board took place only in 1999, the year (already in another country) when he after repeated tests, was finally put into operation.Excellent aerodynamic qualities of the new aircraft, as well as its efficiency, reliability and low maintenance costs had to make IL-114 machine is very popular in the civil air transport.However, it produced only 17 aircraft.As of 2012 production in Tashkent terminated.
Today actively exploited modification of the aircraft IL-114-100, which is different from the "one-hundred" installation of more powerful engines PW-127H Canadian production that drastically reduces the flight characteristics of the model.This is especially noticeable at high altitudes and sultry climate of southern latitudes, for which IL-114-110, in principle, is meant.
