IL-18

Il-18 is a passenger aircraft for long-haul airlines, made according to the scheme of a four-engine turboprop low-wing aircraft with a single-fin tail. One of the first Soviet turboprop liners.

It was mass-produced from 1958 to 1978 at the plant number 30 ("Banner of Labor"), located near the Central Airfield on the Khodynka field in Moscow. In total, 719 (according to other sources - more than 850) aircraft were built, including 564 passenger ones (1957-1969), the rest - special ones (for example, ice reconnaissance or meteorological laboratories) and military ones (including Il-38) were built to the end 1970s.