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This is a dedicated topic for the subject aircraft.
Please post all the related info here.
As far as Il-114-300 was chosen for Make In India program with a wide TOT and is a multi-purpose platform for military and civil use it can be interested on defence forum.
It is cheap, robust, reliable, high performant platform which is very cheap and easy to operate.
It can be used from poorly equipped airfields including high mountain ones.
Nowadays options are:
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/craft/il114.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-114
Please post all the related info here.
As far as Il-114-300 was chosen for Make In India program with a wide TOT and is a multi-purpose platform for military and civil use it can be interested on defence forum.
It is cheap, robust, reliable, high performant platform which is very cheap and easy to operate.
It can be used from poorly equipped airfields including high mountain ones.
Nowadays options are:
- Lite passenger craft for local (up to 1000km) air routes for 55-65 passenger places.
- Lite cargo plane for civil parcel service.
- Convertible passenger/cargo.
- Civil and military surviallance and patrol craft.
- lite gunship for COIN.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/craft/il114.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-114