The Ilyushin Il-14 (NATO reporting name: Crate) is a Soviet twin-engine commercial and military personnel and cargo transport aircraft that first flew in 1950, and entered service in 1954. The Il-14 was also manufactured in East Germany by VEB Flugzeugwerke as the VEB 14 and in Czechoslovakia as the Avia 14 .

Jun 12, 2018 · A twin-engine Ilyushin Il-14 (NATO code name Crate), North Vietnam’s primary cargo and troop transport plane, flew over Tchepone Airfield in Laos on Oct. 25, 1961—a flight photographed by a U.S. Air Force McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo reconnaissance plane—and dropped supplies to North Vietnamese Army soldiers and Pathet Lao communist ...

The Il-14 is an improved development of the basic Il-12 design. The major improvement Ilyushin introduced was a new wing design featuring a more efficient aerofoil section, plus more powerful Shvetsov engines and a general clean up of the airframe.

Ilyushin Il-14 (Ильюшин Ил-14; NATO reporting name: Crate) was a Soviet twin-engine airliner for small and medium-haul air routes and a military transport, produced by Ilyushin. The airplane was also produced in East Germany with the name VEB 14 and in Czechoslovakia as the Avia 14 .

The Ilyushin Il-14 is a twin-engined short-range airliner for max. 36 passengers and transport aircraft developed by the Soviet design bureau Ilyushin OKB.

Feb 7, 2015 · Consider the plane Ilyushin Il-14. Here are described the photo, characteristics, history of creation and history of the IL-14 aircraft operation

The production of Il-14 aircraft was started in Moscow by the "Znamia Truda" plant in 1954, replacing Il-12 aircraft on the production line. The aircraft was introduced to Aeroflot in November 1954. The first cruises allowed to gather comments and conclusions that led to the development of the IL-14 M version (modified – modernized).

IL-14 Crate-C - built in Poland licensed version of IL-14 aircraft with electronic countermeasures, was first demonstrated in 1979.

The dream to keep the IL-14 flying is still there, even though the saviour Alexander Poddubny died on 14. Oktober 2020. The plane is now being taken care of by his long time partner Alexey. This classic airplane was build in Dresden, Germany in 1959.

Considered slow and technologically unsophisticated by modern standards, these planes played an ideological role in the Cold War by parrying Western imports. Production took place in communist-bloc countries; the Il-12 and Il-14 series numbered into the thousands, serving…