Ilyushin Il-14

The Ilyushin Il-14 was a Soviet twin-engine piston airliner and military transport that first flew in 1950 and entered service in 1954. It was developed from the Il-12 to replace the widespread Douglas DC-3 and its Soviet copy, the Lisunov Li-2, after the Il-12 proved weak on one engine and carried less than planned. Two Shvetsov ASh-82T-7 radial piston engines of 1,400 kW each powered it. Beyond Soviet production, East Germany built it as the VEB 14 and Czechoslovakia as the Avia 14, and it served with air forces and airlines across the Eastern Bloc and beyond. The Antonov An-24 and Yakovlev Yak-40 usually replaced it. A few were still flying decades later, and one operator only retired its last aircraft in 2002 for lack of parts.