Ilyushin Il-86

The Ilyushin Il-86 is a wide-body jet airliner built by the Soviet Ilyushin design bureau, the Soviet Union's first wide-bodied aircraft, developed through the 1970s and completed too late to enter service in time for the 1980 Moscow Olympics as originally intended. It first flew on 22 December 1976 and entered service with Aeroflot in December 1980, built primarily by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association with some Polish industrial involvement, for short- to medium-range Soviet domestic and bloc routes. Of 106 aircraft built, only three were exported, civilian operations ended by 2020, and a handful of surviving examples were retained by the Russian Air Force for command-and-control duty.