Il-76 Candid
ICAO IL76The Soviet answer to the C-141, still the backbone of Russian military airlift. Live Il-76 positions.
Flying right now
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No Il-76 Candid is transmitting ADS-B at the moment.
Military aircraft are not obliged to broadcast, so this happens regularly. The count refreshes every thirty seconds.
Airframe
- Manufacturer
- Ilyushin
- Role
- Strategic airlift
- Class
- L4J — Landplane, 4 jet engines
- Crew
- 5
- First flight
- 25 March 1971
- In service
- 1974
Operators airborne
Nothing of this type is up right now.
About the Il-76 Candid
The Il-76 is the aircraft that moves things for Russia and for a long list of countries that bought Soviet equipment. More than nine hundred were built, and the type remains in production in Ulyanovsk as the modernised Il-76MD-90A.
It is a rougher, more purposeful machine than its Western equivalents. Designed for unprepared strips in Siberia, it carries an extraordinary amount of undercarriage, a glazed navigator's nose inherited from bomber practice, and on many airframes a tail gunner's position.
Visibility on ADS-B is patchy and politically contingent. Russian military aircraft transmit inconsistently, and coverage across central Asia is thin, so this page shows considerably less than the fleet actually flies. Algerian, Indian, Kazakh and Ukrainian aircraft also appear.
Callsign prefixes
- RFF
- Russian Federation Air Force
- UAF
- Ukrainian Air Force
How to recognise it
- —Four turbofans on underwing pylons, a high swept wing and a T-tail.
- —A fully glazed nose beneath the cockpit — no Western transport has this.
- —An enormous multi-wheel undercarriage carried in prominent fuselage fairings.
Common questions
+ Do Russian military aircraft appear on ADS-B?
Some do, inconsistently. Transponder use varies by unit and mission, and receiver coverage across Russia and central Asia is far thinner than over Europe, so this page shows a small fraction of what actually flies.
+ Is the Il-76 still being built?
Yes. The modernised Il-76MD-90A, with new engines and a glass cockpit, remains in production at Ulyanovsk, though at a low rate.
+ What does Candid mean?
It is the NATO reporting name. NATO assigns codenames to Soviet and Russian aircraft, using an initial letter that indicates the category — C for cargo, F for fighter, B for bomber.