Ilyushin hopes to receive a contract for 62 Ⅱ-112V transport aircraft from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) before the end of 2013, a spokesman for the design bureau told state news agency RIA Novosti. The reports are further indication that Russia has revived the twin turboprop aircraft programme, which it effectively cancelled in 2011. The Ⅱ-112V, the proposed military variant of the Ⅱ-112 passenger aircraft concept, is designed to carry six tonnes of cargo to a range of 1,000 km.
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