The Ilyushin Il-96 is a modern Russian long-haul widebody airliner, developed to compete with similar western manufactured airliners. However, it has not been very successful and only thirty have been manufactured.

The Ilyushin Il-96 is a shortened, long-range and advanced technology development of Russia’s first widebody airliner, the Ilyushin Il-86.

It is equipped with modern avionics developed in Russia to international standards.

The first Il-96 flight took place on 28 September 1988 and they began entering service with Aeroflot in December 1992.

Despite a low sale price the Il-96 has not been able to compete with similar western long-haul airliners such as the Airbus A.340 and the Boeing 777 so only 29 had been produced to the end of 2012.

Most are operated by Russian airlines.

This model represents RA-96013 flying for Domodedova Airlines in 2008.

Tupolev 1/144 kit with PAS Decals decals completed by Leigh Edmonds in April 2014.