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Vinony's link graph records 304 inbound references to Ilyushin Il-62, and connects out to Czech Airlines, The Gambia and Tupolev Tu-154.
It sits within the topics 1960s Soviet airliners, Aircraft first flown in 1963 and Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear.
Vinony links it to 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- Narrow-body jet airliner
- Designer
- Ilyushin
- Built by
- KAPO
- Status
- In limited service
- Primary users
- Air Koryo , Rada Airlines Aeroflot (former) , Russian VIP transport
- Number built
- 292 (5 prototypes; 94 Il-62; 193 Il-62M)
- Manufactured
- 1963–1995
- Introduction date
- Il-62 – 15 September 1967 , Il-62M – 9 March 1974
- First flight
- 3 January 1963
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- airliner
- Operator
- TAROM
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Developer
- Genrikh Novozhilov
- Manufacturer
- Kazan Aircraft Production Association
- Image
- Air Koryo IL-62M P-881.JPG
- Height
- 12.35
- Length
- 53.12
- Significant event
- LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055
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- wing configuration
- low wing
- Commons category
- Ilyushin Il-62
- NATO reporting name
- Classic
- powered by
- Soloviev D-30
- Commons gallery
- Ilyushin Il-62
- first flight
- 1963-01-03
- total produced
- 292
- service entry
- 1965-00-00
- wingspan
- 43.2
- maximum operating altitude
- 12000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ilyushin Il-62 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-62; NATO reporting name: Classic) is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As a successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 passengers and crew, the Il-62 was the world's largest jet airliner when first flown in 1963. The seventh quad-engined, long-range jet airliner to fly (the predecessors being the De Havilland Comet (1949), Avro Jetliner (1949), Boeing 707 (1954), Douglas DC-8 (1958), Vickers VC10 (1962), and experimental Tupolev Tu-110 (1957)), it was the first such type to be operated by the Soviet Union and a number of allied nations.
The Il-62 entered Aeroflot civilian service on 15 September 1967 with an inaugural passenger flight from Moscow to Montreal and remained the standard long-range airliner for the Soviet Union (and later, Russia) for several decades. It was the first Soviet pressurised aircraft with non-circular cross-section fuselage and ergonomic passenger doors and the first Soviet jet with six-abreast seating (the turboprop Tu-114 shared this arrangement) and international-standard position lights.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ilyushin Il-62” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.