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Ilyushin Il-16 II - medium-range passenger aircraft

Do not confuse the name of this machine with the IL-16 experimental attack aircraft built in 1945. In the Design Bureau of S.V. Ilyushin, newly designed aircraft were often assigned numbers of previously created and not built in a series of predecessors.

Despite the massive use and enormous popularity of the IL-14 aircraft , by the mid-1950s, new, more advanced aircraft with significantly greater passenger capacity and speed were already required. Such an opportunity could provide only a jet engine, already fully mastered in military aviation. The design bureau Tupolev, OKAntonova and Ilyushin under the government turned the design work on the main parameters of future jet machines, but the direction of this work to a common set purpose be different. The first two of these groups, trying to gain time, took the path of remaking their already mass-produced Tu-16 military aircraft and An-8 to transport vehicles designed for the transport of passengers and goods on Aeroflot lines.

And only the Design Bureau of S.V. Ilyushin firmly upheld the concept of a specialized passenger aircraft capable of providing passengers with maximum safety and comfort in flight, and the Civil Air Fleet acceptable economic efficiency of its use. At the very end of 1954, design work began on the design of such a passenger aircraft, which received the designation IL-16.

The new machine provided for the use of four turbojet engines designed by A.A. Mikulin AM-11having a take-off thrust of 3750 kg and located in the root of the wing next to the fuselage. The mission involved the transportation of 40-45 passengers at a distance of 1600 km at a speed of up to 800 km / h with a high degree of reliability and flight safety. After the government decree in April 1955 on the creation of the IL-16 high-speed passenger passenger plane, design bureau began to produce design documentation. However, the first successful flights of the Tu-104 passenger aircraft, the development of which was much less time-consuming, forced the WWF to abandon the order. The last point on November 30 was set by the Government’s new decision to stop all work on this machine, despite the fact that by this time 80% of all the drawings were ready. It should be noted that in A.N. Tupolev Design Bureau a similar aircraft was created -Tu-110 with four AL-7 engines , which also did not arouse interest of the Customer.