{"id":76753,"date":"2024-06-19T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/putins-presidential-planes-what-we-know\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:13:10","slug":"putins-presidential-planes-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/putins-presidential-planes-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Presidential Planes: What We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When President Vladimir V. Putin travels abroad \u2014 as he did this week to North Korea<\/a> and Vietnam<\/a> to bolster alliances and nurture security ties amid Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine \u2014 he typically flies in dated, Soviet-designed Ilyushin Il-96 series jets.<\/p>\n

With his latest trip coming shortly after aircraft crashes killed two other world leaders, President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran<\/a> and Vice President Saulos Chilima of Malawi<\/a>, a Kremlin spokesman<\/a> felt it necessary recently to reassure the Russian public that Mr. Putin\u2019s planes were \u201cvery reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Russian airline carriers have abandoned Ilyushin models in favor of newer Western models \u2014 neither of the country\u2019s two major airlines, Aeroflot<\/a> and Rossiya<\/a>, currently list any Ilyushin planes in their commercial passenger fleet \u2014 Mr. Putin seems steadfast in his commitment.<\/p>\n

Accompanied by fighter<\/a> jets, Mr. Putin took an Il-96 on a whirlwind day trip in 2023 for talks with leaders in United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Earlier that same year, another plane in the government\u2019s Il-96 fleet was tracked stopping at airports in Washington and New York to retrieve Russian diplomats<\/a> who the Kremlin said had been ordered to leave the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n