A monument to the Il-62 airplane was opened at the Moscow airport.

Monument to the first Soviet intercontinental airliner opened in Sheremetyevo airport today, and as employees of the Moscow airport have informed Avia.pro, the monument is first of all devoted not to the aircraft, but to the designers who worked on its development.

For almost 25 years, IL-62 compete effectively with the American Boeing, providing comfortable transportation of passengers on international flights, including those in the most remote corners of the planet.

At the present time, the aircraft is not as effective in comparison with modern airliners, but its operation continues to this day, even though the first flight on this aircraft was made in 1963 year, and it was originally intended to be an equivalent replacement airplanes, and, for a rather long term.