B767-400ER From Hong Kong, joined Apr 2000, 290 posts, RR: 1 Posted (14 years 4 months 7 hours ago) and read 610 times:
The Illyushin Il-96M is the newest Russian wide-body pax jet. This version is a stretch version of the Il-96-300 is has western avionics from Honeywell and 4 PW2337 turbofans engines (same as the 757's and C-17s). What airlines have so far order the Illyushin Il-96M?
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 1, posted (14 years 4 months 6 hours ago) and read 604 times:
I don't know but one thing that is killing this aircraft if the marketplace is the length of time that it has taked for it to get into production. I think it has been something like ten years since they first displayed it at the paris air show. It isn't a bad airplane and was one of the first that they announce would b ebuilt to western certification.
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Antonov From Croatia, joined Jun 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (14 years 4 months 5 hours ago) and read 605 times:
The B757 look alike that y'all talk about is the TU-204 and not the the new IL96 !
If you want to see the TU-204, you'll have to jump to http://www.ramdata.be/new
A1ex From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (14 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 606 times:
In order to get rid of any confusion flying about "recent" Russian planes, probably the simplest way of going about it is to think of them as:
Tu-204 = Boeing-757
IL-96 = Airbus A340 or IL-86 (plus winglets)
Tu-334 = Fokker-100 or MD-80
Russian "relatives" of Western models are more likely to first appear in Aeroflot colours. So, for example, if you spot a "baby" that in some way resembles A340, but in Aeroflot colours, then it's definitely an IL-96 (Aeroflot don't fly A340s, yet) :).
Well, that was a rather "dull" explanation but handy :). Even a starting or non- aircraft spotter should be able to distinguish the models.
il76 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2004, 2235 posts, RR: 51 Reply 7, posted (14 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 605 times:
The Il-96 is ordered by:
Aeroflot for starters, and I believe TransAero and Volga Dnepr (IL-96T freighter) ordered some. I'm not sure if they are real orders or options.
We'll see... I know Aeroflot is not happy with the Il96T. The leased DC-10 they use out-performs the Il96 big time!!
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 8, posted (14 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 604 times:
This is one of the big problems with aircraft over there. It is awfuly hard to sell a plane to a customer when he knows that only the prototype is flying and that it took over 10 years on the last aircraft to go from a prototype to production.
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AA727 From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 124 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (14 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 606 times:
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