Delivery Transport Ilyushin Il- 476 customers will begin in 2012
Completion of assembly and first flight of a new transport aircraft IL- 476, which is interested in buying Russian Ministry of Defense , is scheduled for the end of 2011, and certification and delivery of the first machines to the customer - in 2012 . This , according to ITAR -TASS , the forum "Technology in Mechanical Engineering 2010 in Zhukovsky, vice president for corporate governance and the development of the United Aircraft Corporation Vasily Prutkovsky .
The main customer of the IL -476 , which is a deep modernization of the Il-76 transport worker , is a Russian Defense Ministry . Under a new state program of armaments for 2011-2020 War Department has included the purchase of 50 such aircraft in two versions - transport workers and tanker . The state program has not yet been approved and the number planned to purchase the aircraft may change. Serial production of IL -476 is scheduled to open at the factory Aviastar -SP .
Work on the assembly of the first flight of the prototype IL -476 began in 2009 . In late December last year, President of the United Aircraft Corporation Alexei Fedorov said that the Ulyanovsk plant Aviastar -SP was initially planned to deploy the production of IL-76 , which had previously met at the Tashkent Aircraft Production Association named after Chkalov . However, it is IL-76 customers was not needed and it was decided to commence its upgraded version with a glass cockpit and improved flight-navigation complex.
IL -476 can reach speeds of up to 850 kilometers per hour and carry up to 50 tons of cargo a distance of six thousand kilometers . It is possible that as in the IL -76 , armament of the new aircraft will be presented twin cannon fodder installing caliber 23 millimeter.
Completion of assembly and first flight of a new transport aircraft IL- 476, which is interested in buying Russian Ministry of Defense , is scheduled for the end of 2011, and certification and delivery of the first machines to the customer - in 2012 . This , according to ITAR -TASS , the forum "Technology in Mechanical Engineering 2010 in Zhukovsky, vice president for corporate governance and the development of the United Aircraft Corporation Vasily Prutkovsky .
The main customer of the IL -476 , which is a deep modernization of the Il-76 transport worker , is a Russian Defense Ministry . Under a new state program of armaments for 2011-2020 War Department has included the purchase of 50 such aircraft in two versions - transport workers and tanker . The state program has not yet been approved and the number planned to purchase the aircraft may change. Serial production of IL -476 is scheduled to open at the factory Aviastar -SP .
Work on the assembly of the first flight of the prototype IL -476 began in 2009 . In late December last year, President of the United Aircraft Corporation Alexei Fedorov said that the Ulyanovsk plant Aviastar -SP was initially planned to deploy the production of IL-76 , which had previously met at the Tashkent Aircraft Production Association named after Chkalov . However, it is IL-76 customers was not needed and it was decided to commence its upgraded version with a glass cockpit and improved flight-navigation complex.
IL -476 can reach speeds of up to 850 kilometers per hour and carry up to 50 tons of cargo a distance of six thousand kilometers . It is possible that as in the IL -76 , armament of the new aircraft will be presented twin cannon fodder installing caliber 23 millimeter.