Il-14 is developed on the basis of the Il-12 aircraft. The first flight of the experimental Il-14P took place on October 1, 1950. Serial production was set up first at the Moscow plant "Labor Banner", then at the Tashkent Aviation Plant named after A.Yu. VP Chkalov, who produced 3500 aircraft of almost 40 modifications. The aircraft was built under license in the GDR (80 units) and Czechoslovakia (203).
Since November 1954, regular transportations to Il-14 began at Aeroflot: first on the main lines, and from the beginning of the 1960s (after the introduction of the An-10 and Il-18) - on local air routes. Il-14 was widely exported and operated in civil air companies and the Air Force of 31 countries of the world. During the operation, the overhaul life was brought from the original 1,000 flight hours to 3,500 hours, assigned from 3000 flight hours to 35,000 hours.
The flight and navigation equipment includes two ARC-5 radio compasses, a radio altimeter of small heights PB-2, the equipment of the instrumental landing system "Continent" with the rangefinder SD-1, the marker radio receiver MPP-48P, the air horizon AGC-475, the gyro-compass GPK-48, the magnetic compass KI -eleven. The communications equipment includes the RSB-D radio communications station, the RSH-G command radio stations) and the RSIU-3M, the SPU-10 aircraft intercom.
At the beginning of the 1990s, several Il-14s were still used in the Arctic regions of Russia, as well as in China and North Korea.
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