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Aircraft Types
Ilyushin Il-14
The Ilyushin Il-14 is a Soviet twin-engine piston airliner and transport, developed from the Il-12 as a replacement for the DC-3 and its Soviet-built version, the Lisunov Li-2. First flown in 1950, it entered Aeroflot service in 1954 and was produced in three countries: 1,065 in the Soviet Union, 80 under licence by VEB Flugzeugwerke in East Germany and 203 by Avia in Czechoslovakia, whose Av-14s flew airline, military and survey work into the 1990s. The type served across the Soviet bloc and was widely exported before the Antonov An-24 and Yakovlev Yak-40 replaced it; a few examples were reported still airworthy in Russia in the 2010s.
Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik
The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik was a Soviet armored ground-attack aircraft of the Second World War. Built around a steel armored shell that protected its crew, engine and fuel, it attacked German armor and troops at low level on the Eastern Front and was produced in larger numbers, over 36,000, than any other military aircraft in history. Few survive today; examples are preserved in museums in Europe and the United States, and one flies in Washington State.
Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
The Ilyushin Il-28, NATO reporting name Beagle, is a Soviet twin-engined jet bomber that first flew in 1948 and entered service in 1950. Soviet factories built 6,316 of them between 1949 and 1955; Avia licence-built the type in Czechoslovakia as the B-228, and Harbin built it in China without a licence as the H-5. Exported widely, it was deployed to Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis, and North Korea is reported to remain its last operator.