Ilyushin Il-103

The Ilyushin Il-103 is a single-engine, low-wing training and light utility aircraft developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau from 1990 in the Soviet Union and now produced in Russia. It was the first Russian aircraft to receive Federal Aviation Administration certification, in 1998, and was marketed in the United States. A four-seat design with a single pilot crew, it is powered by one 157 kW Teledyne Continental IO-360 piston engine and cruises at around 180 km/h. Reviewers have called it robust, safe and comfortable and built for poor runways and harsh Russian weather. About twenty-three were delivered to South Korea in the early 2000s as debt repayment, as the T-103, and later replaced by the KC-100; Laos and Peru also operate it, and a modernised version is to be licence-built in Hungary.