Remembering Ilyushin Il-86, "Camber," its NATO code name, or “Airbusky,” pejoratively called by Western observers.

Ground attack aircraft don't always get the same level of fame that fighter jets do, but they have long served a critical ...

An air police officer said twbeen pulled from the wreckage of the big, four-engined Ilyushin Il-86 but he believed one had later died. The Pulkovo Airlines jet, capable of taking 350 passengers ...

The Swedish Gripens conducted their first Alpha Scramble for the NATO Air Policing mission, intercepting a Russian Il-20 Coot over the Baltic Sea. Two Swedish Air Force’s (Flygvapnet) JAS39 ...

United Aircraft has flown its latest prototype airframe of the twin-turboprop Ilyushin Il-114-300, bringing the flight-test fleet to three aircraft. Its initial sortie – with three crew members ...

The emergency ministry said a Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft specialising in firefighting, as well as an Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane, would be sent to Iran to help out. Iranian ...

The Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M “Coot-A” intelligence aircraft on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement. Two day later ...

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin has ordered several planes to be sent to Iran to help deal with the aftermath of a blast at Iran's port of Bandar Abbas, Russia's emergency ministry said on Sunday.