IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik is ...

The Ilyushin Il-2 was by all accounts a formidable aircraft. With the Il-2, the Soviet Union’s Ilyushin aerospace bureau created one of the most feared ground-attack aircraft on the Eastern Front—a ...

This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Melly Alazraki. The Ilyushin Il-2 was the most produced aircraft by any nation in World War II, ...

These days, we’re talking about supersonic airplanes, ultra-luxurious cabins, and zero-emission propulsion systems for green flights. But before all of that, the forefathers of long-haul aviation ...

During one of the darkest chapters in the Soviet Union’s history, pilot S. Kuzniecov was flying his Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik back from a mission across the vast Russian territories now dominated by the ...

When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets done no matter how dumb the concept is in theory. This authoritarian approach to the ...

When we talk about combat aircraft that are so ugly they are brutishly beautiful, aircraft like the A-10, B-52 and the Mi-24 come to mind. Yet an obscure Russian close air support aircraft that lost a ...

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has resumed flight trials of the Ilyushin Il-114-300 passenger turboprop. The new prototype, the first Il-114-300 to be assembled in Russia, performed a ...

Ilyushin IL-96-300 (file photo) Russia yesterday indefinitely grounded Ilyushin 96-300 passenger aircraft after transport inspectors pointed out malfunctions in the jets’ braking systems. The decision ...

MOSCOW—Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has assembled a first fuselage for the Ilyushin Il-96-400M, a stretched variant of Il-96 widebody passenger aircraft. The fuselage was manufactured at the ...