2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ilyushin Il-103 at MAKS-2001 airshow: Sergey Ryabtsev· GFDL 1.2
- 2. 韓国空軍のIl-103（制式名称T-103）: Enu04· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Ilyushin Il-103 is a single-engine, low-wing training aircraft developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau that started in 1990 in the Soviet Union. The aircraft is now produced in Russia. It was the first Russian aircraft to achieve Federal Aviation Administration certification in 1998, it is for sale in the United States.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.6 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 32 years ago, in 1994.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.6 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1994-05-17
- introduced
- 1996
- status
- still flying
- number built
- 66
- role
- training aircraft
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- makers
- Ilyushin
- engines
- 1× Teledyne Continental IO-360-ES2B / IO-360-ES
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 8 m
- wingspan
- 10.6 m
- height
- 3.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,310 kg
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- cruise speed
- 180 km/h
- range
- 800 km
- ceiling
- 2,999 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1658673, Wikipedia: Ilyushin Il-103 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.