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Firefighting aircraft directory/Russia/Ilyushin Il-76/RA-76362

Aircraft reference

RA-76362

IL-76 TD · MChS Rossii

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Photograph of RA-76362

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Identity

Mission
Air tankers
Registration
RA-76362
Mode-S address
152A4A
ICAO type
IL76
Model
IL-76 TD
Manufacturer
Ilyushin
Operator
MChS Rossii
Country of registration
Russia

About the Ilyushin Il-76

Land-based air tanker

It loads water or retardant on the ground and attacks from a runway base. It can knock down flames with water or lay a retardant line ahead of the fire to slow its spread and support crews on the ground.

What this type can do

The four-engine Il-76 uses a removable aerial firefighting tank to deliver very large water or retardant drops from a strategic transport platform. It reloads on the ground and is suited to sustained attack over remote, large fires where payload and range matter more than rapid refill cycles.

This describes the type’s usual firefighting capability; it does not prove what this aircraft is carrying or doing now.

Ilyushin Il-76

The Ilyushin Il-76 is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12. It was developed to deliver heavy machinery to remote and poorly served areas. Military versions of the Il-76 have been widely used in Europe, Asia and Africa, including use as an aerial refueling tanker and command center.

ICAO type · IL76

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Flight history

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Photographs

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  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Sergey Kustov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Felix Goetting · GFDL 1.2 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    parfaits · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Igor Bubin · GFDL 1.2 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Pavel Slabov · All rights reserved · Planespotters.net

Elsewhere

Live tracking & flight history

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  • FlightAwareRegistration record and recent activity.

Photography

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  • Wikimedia CommonsFreely licensed images — the ones this sheet is allowed to host.

Registries & airframe records

  • Airframes.orgAirframe history: serial number, operators, incidents.
  • adsbdbOpen registration database, in JSON.
  • hexdb.ioMode-S address record used by the tracking community, in JSON.

Type reference

  • ICAO type IL76ICAO Doc 8643 entry: designator, wake category, engines.
Reference data assembled on August 16, 2026 from adsbdb, hexdb.io, Wikimedia Commons, Planespotters. Run pnpm fetch:aircraft --refresh to rebuild it.