Il-114-100 was up in the air

January 26, 1999 at the airfield of Tashkent aviation production Association. V. P. Chkalov (TAPOiCh) mixed crew AK them. Vs Ilyushin and the manufacturer was first raised in the air turboprop regional aircraft Il-114-100. The new aircraft differs from the basic modifications of the powertrain – it is equipped with canadian engines PW-127H company “Pratt & Whitney Canada” (Pratt & Whitney Canada) and lightly loaded propellers 586Е-7 made by American company “Hamilton Standard” (Hamilton standard).

In case of successful certification of the aircraft will be eliminated the main drawback of the Il-114 – low reliability and service life of its engine and improved flight performance. Designed in NPP “Zavod im. Klimov,” turboprop TV7-117S, which designed the plane, has all the traditional disadvantages of the newly created Russian engine in the first place – low reliability and life between repairs (now it’s set to 1500 h, it is planned to reach 6000 hours in 2002). Canadian engine, already long time in operation, more powerful than the Russian (2750 HP vs. 2500 HP), and time to removal from the wing more than 7000 h.