The result of a requirement to replace the Tupolev Tu-2 piston engine bomber, the design on the Ilyushin Il-28 began in 1947, with the first flight of a pre-production model on Aug. 8, 1948.

The Ilyushin Il-28 is a Soviet-designed light bomber first deployed in 1950. The Harbin H-5 is the same plane that is produced by China under license. North Korea is believed to be the only ...

TASS/. Ilyushin Aviation Complex operating as part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will develop the line of ultra-high capacity transport aircraft, UAC said on Friday on the occasion of ...

LE BOURGET. June 20. /TASS/. Russia’s Ilyushin Aircraft Company is developing a new military transport plane with a lifting capacity of 20 tonnes, Ilyushin Chief Designer Nikolai Talikov told ...