SIGHTING OF A POSSIBLE FUSELAGE OF A NEW ILYUSHIN TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT

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• Document Release Date: March 8, 2001
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• Publication Date: February 7, 1962
• Content Type: BRIEF

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CURRENT SUPPORT BRIEF
SIGHTING OF A POSSIBLE FUSELAGE OF A
NEW ILYUSHIN TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SIGHTING OF A POSSIBLE FUSELAGE OF A
NEW ILYUSHIN TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT
A recent sighting of an object, believed to be a civil aircraft
fuselage, being conveyed in the vicinity of Moscow Airframe Plant No.
30 and adjacent Airframe Plant No. 381 indicates that one of these
plants may be engaged in the production of a prototype of a new air-
Because the Design Bureau of S. V. Ilyushin is believed to
be in this vicinity, and one or both of the plants earlier have pro-
duced prototypes of Ilyushin aircraft, it is concluded that the object
seen may be the fuselage of a new Ilyushin turbojet transport aircraft,
and possibly that of the 11-62 which is known to be under development
in the USSR. 2/ If these assumptions are correct, ground tests followed
by flight tests of the I1-62 should be underway in the near future.
Series production of the 11-62 will follow. the successful completion.of
these tests, but at some plant other than Plant No. 30 or Plant No. 381.
On 16 December 1961, a Western observer followed an unidentified
canvas-covered object through the streets of north central Moscow. The
object was being towed on two flatbeds in tandem in the vicinity of
Moscow Airframe Plant No. 30 and Plant No. 381 and was escorted by
several militiamen, described as being "excited". The object was about
one-half a city block in length, with the tail extending several feet
beyond the flatbed, and the widest part of body extending 2 or 3 feet
beyond the sides of the flatbed and the wing stub extending 3 to 4
feet beyond each side of the flatbed. The tail section possibly was
slightly swept. The length of the object was undoubtedly overestimated.
The large diameter of the fuselage strongly indicates a civil aircraft
rather than a bomber aircraft. The possibility that the object; could
have been a Shyster or Sandal-type missile is discounted in view of
the existence of the tail section and wing roots.
This sighting may have been.of the movement of a prototype fuselage
of a new aircraft--possibly an 11-62--between Moscow, Airframe Plant
No. 30 or Plant No. 381 and the aerodynamics test center at New TsAGI
(Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute - Tsentralnyy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy
Institut), located near Ramenskoe, about 30 miles southeast of Moscow for
static and assembly testing or to LII (Flight Research Institute -- Letno-
Issledovatelskiy Institut), also in Ramenskoe, for flight testing.
The Ilyushin Design Bureau is probably located in the vicinity of
Moscow/Central Airfield, which is the airfield used by Airframe Plants
30 and 381. Moscow Airframe Plant No. 30 currently is in series pro-
duction of the Ilyushin turbojet transport 1.11-18 (Coot). Therefore
Plant No. 381 may be the producer of a new,Ilyushin prototype aircraft.
It is not believed that either Plant No..30 or Plant No. 381 will series
produce the I1-62 aircraft because of the short runway at the factory
airfield and the lack of buildings of sufficient height to permit the
final assembly of an aircraft of this size. Furthermore, there are no
indications that production of the Coot aircraft at Plant No. 30 is
decreasing, which would be expected if a new program was to be under-
taken.
Khrushchev boasted of the development. of a new Ilyushin design
.passenger plane to Italian Premier Fanfani in the summer of 1961 and
said that it would be able to transport 60 passengers 5,6:00 miles at
560 miles per hour. 2/ He was, in all likelihood, referring to the I1-62.
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Analyst:
Coord?
Sources :
I. Air, AF IN: 44193, 23 Dee, 61. S.
2. Air Attache Moscow C-3 , 7 Aug 61. S/NOFORN.
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