Aircraft
UAC Sets First Flight Date For Il-112 Airlifter
Russia is dumping the An-140 in favor of the new Ilyushin twin turboprop, as its An-26 replacement.
A model of the forthcoming Il-112 airlifter, displayed in the Ilyushin design bureau’s museum in Moscow. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
A model of the forthcoming Il-112 airlifter, displayed in the Ilyushin design bureau’s museum in Moscow. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

The Ilyushin Il-112V tactical airlifter for the Russian air force will make its maiden flight in the summer of 2017, according to Yuri Slyusar, president of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC). Russia selected the the Il-112V, being developed from the Il-114 airliner, rather than the Antonov An-140T, because of Russia’s poor relations with Ukraine. The new airlifter will replace Russia’s aging fleet of Antonov An-26s, in a program that was first defined in the late 1990s, as the LVTS (Russian acronym for Lightweight Military-Transport Aircraft).


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