**Air Ukraine Ilyushin IL-62M UR-86135 Илью́шин Ил-62 Herpa 572699 Scale 1:200

Air Ukraine Ilyushin IL-62M UR-86135 Илью́шин Ил-62 Herpa 572699 Scale 1:200
Highly detailed Herpa Wings dieacst metal model

Air Ukraine was established in 1992 as the successor to the Kyiv Directorate of Aeroflot as the future national airline of the Republic of Ukraine, which had only been founded a year earlier. It took over a fleet of more than 200 aircraft from almost all types manufactured in the USSR. Flagships were eight four-engine Ilyushin IL-62M. They were used, among other things, on the important long-haul routes to New York and Toronto, where large emigrant communities had already developed back then. Subsequent modernization attempts and a merger with Ukraine International Airlines, also founded by the Ukrainian state, failed, whereupon Air Ukraine stopped all flights in 2002.