Design features:

• 3 stages low pressure compressor
• 11 stages high pressure compressor
• cannular combustor (12 flame tubes)
• 2 stages high pressure turbine
• 4 stages low pressure turbine

Advantages:

High reliability - over 60 millions flight hours in operation; more than 8000 engines delivered, about 2000 engines are in operation worldwide.

Towards continuous improving the D-30KU/KP operational characteristics, upgrades are realized:

• to enhance the ecological performances
• to improve the in-flight reliability
• to increase the engine lives

Application:

• D-30KP and D-30KP-2 for Ilyushin-76/78 cargo / transport aircraft family
• D-30KU and D-30KU-2 for Ilyushin-62M long- / middle-range commercial jets
• D-30KU-154 for Tupolev-154M middle-range commercial jets

Ilyushin-76

The Ilyushin-76 ramp jet transport aircraft is one of the most successful aircraft in its class in the world aviation history. The Ilyushin-76 aircraft and its modifications are widely used on the global air transportation market of oversized cargo:

• military cargos (Russian defense export, transportations on the order of foreign defense departments)
• commercial cargos (aviation, space, telecommunication, oil and gas equipments, etc.)
• humanitarian cargos (rescue equipment, mobile hospitals, etc.)